244 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1875. (Dec. 11) Nycticorax micro and at the snap he turned his flight and ere I could pull the other trigger was nearly out of sight among the pines; I fired but without effect, and he went off high up over the woods leaving me very much disgusted. His flight was direct and very easy with alternate flappings and failings. After this bet on the farm for grain but without starting anything, got back in time for dinner without having killed a bird. At 2 P. M. Danielson came up and we drove over to Medford when we just up the horse in a hurry table and struck for the woods. Found a very wild country behind the town but although we beat over considerable ground we saw only one grouse and that so wild that it flushed both times entirely out of range. Picked up a dead gosh which somebody had shot and which we found lying on its breast on the ice, Saw three Piriscola skeletons. Nycticorax micro has occurred in unusual numbers this season. Goodale has had 8 specimens already; Brewster & Stimson on Washington St. have a live specimen in a cage in their window. It has all the characteristic motions of the other large owls especially that peculiar sideways swinging of the head; its bill loudly when the cage is tapped with the finger.