206 Nantucket 1875 Sept. 30 D. palmarum, D. coronata Anpeli ced. and Yales columbains Rose: This morning feels quite Sick and feverish And lay in my furnk nearly all the forenoon. Sidney went out Several times with Stone's gun and killed three butter heads. I shot a D. palmarum from the door of the barn and I also heard the Chirp of D. Coronata. In P. M. feelin much worse Sent Sid up to town whence he returned about sunset with in Capt. Burdett's sail boat and getting our things on board my own back in our old quarters at Mrs. Folger by 7 P. M. 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 Oct. 1 Woke this morning much better and spent the day packing up our birds etc. Oct. 2 Started for home this morning. Came across the Sound in the Steamer Island Home leaving Nantucket at 8 and arriving at Woods 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 over and at Woods hole I distinctly saw was composed entirely of adult's Pel. Perspicillata Here I also saw a flock of about 40 Am. aidrons and while watching them an in Yale columbains glided swiftly up and snuck one of them off a branch before the flock took the alarm