Hales Sparverius, Strepsila intypus 202 1875. Monday Sept. 27 Clear with very high wind from the S.W., Off after breakfast in the wagon driving up to Smith's Point. On the way saw three small hawks playing about together in the air like so many swallows, circling about, diving down and chasing one another as if in sport. One of them came so near that I distinctly identified the peculiar markings of Hales Sparverius: The other two may have been of the same species but they looked more like Koelumbergins. At the point shot three Sterna Sulmundo and a Strepsila intypus, The latter bird was feeding in a large flock of Sandlarks. Started to both mud and a golden plums off the mud flats both of which were too dry to allow us to get within shot. The view off Smith's point was grand in the extreme. As far as the eye could reach the white sandy crests of huge surges were breaking and the position of the numerous sand bars being marked by a more than usual commotion of the waters, the Smiths island were literally thousands of turns piling along the fratus ledge and very soon and then the whole vast throng would rise and after a few while settle again