206 Nantucket. 1875 Sept.30 D. palmareum, D. coronata Anaptilis ced. and Yoles columbarius Rose: This morning feeling quite Dick and livlish And lay in my brink nearly all the forenoon Sidney went out several times with Stone's gun and killed three butle heads. I shot a D. palmareum from the door of the house and I also heard the Chirp of D. Coronata. In P.M. feeling much worn sent Sid up to town whence he returned about sunset with in Capt. Burdett's sail boat and getting our things on board we went back in our old quarters at Mrs. Folgers. by 7 P.M. Oct.1 Woke this m[orning] Spent the day running up our birds etc. TAXIDERMY. Messrs. Stone & Brewster, two gentlemen from Boston, are guests at the house of Reuben P. Folger Esq. They are collecting and mounting specimens of our island birds. They have, we understand, obtained a very fine collection. The Island Review. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1875. Oct.2 Started for home this morning. Came across the Sound in the Stamer Island Home leaving Nantucket at 6 and arriving at Wood's hole at 11.30. The wind was blowing a perfect gale but and the waves running very high but in spite of this I saw numbers of terns all the way across, also several large flocks of coots, one of which flying our end at Wood's hole I distinctly saw was composed entirely of adult & Pel. perspicillata. Here I also saw a flock of about 40 An. cidrum and while watching them an in Yole columbarius glided softly up and snuck on of them of a branch before the flock took the alarm