Mr. Agass, Virginia Carolina Hudson's Mud, Beautiful Sunset at Hummock Pond Striking across the Commons, a small obscurely colored bird started among the scanty brack grass and at a few rods off! starting after it I trod it up and shot in on wing and upon picking it up found it to be an Upson's agilis, an immature bird in full plumage. A little further on a Rail started almost under the horse's feet and shortly it found the species to be P. Carolina, also a y.y. fall fl. Still further on in a sandy patch with scanty sparse sedge grass I saw within 30 yds. a Hudson's Mud standing perfectly still and pulling up the worm, I shot him, like the one killed set. him was too fat to be available as a specimen. Killed him two cot. granimus, neither in very good plumage, a B. flaptus auratus (flying) a female with decided traces of a black cheek patch and a sturnella magna the latter a very long shot made from the wagon while in motion. Passing Hummock Pond we found nothing there excepting 16 black ducks which started from a little fresh water pond but not over 10 yds apart. Then fishing dug a couple of stumps and we lay in them till dark without getting a shot. Was well paid however by witnessing a most superb sunset enhanced by land