NYCTALE ACADEIA Rana pipiens 247 1875. Dec. 16 Cloudy and warm, a light dust of snow fell last evening but disappeared to day. Spent the forenoon mounting the 9 guail shot on the 14th. The 3 I mounted yesterday. At 3 P.M. started up into the swamps with Stoner taking a 16 gauge gun belonging to Hudson of Concord and loaned me by him for trial. Crossing Allwife brook I was much pleased at finding a number of frogs (Rana pipiens) sitting on its muddy edge with everything but their heads immersed; Some of them own of quite large size) and all seemed active as in summer. The brook is kept open all winter by the warm sewage matter discharged into it, and the good condition of the Nyctuarcha shot four Dec. 2nd is no longer a mystery keeping on we entered the pine swamp at about sunset. I had seen a Colubio fly down into the Maple thicket W. of Port pond and was hunting for him when I came suddenly upon a Nyctale acadica.) It was sitting on a horizontal limb over the path not 6 ft high above the ground and when I first noticed it had its eyes fixed upon me. It sat perfectly erect with its feathers drawn in tighest, and looked very small indeed, not one third the size of Soots in fact. (vid. obs. Nov. 1874) Backing off a little way I shot a charge of dust at it when to my great disgust it started off through the tree with wonderful speed & celerity; but shooting a map shot with the other barrel I was pleased see it fall with a broken wing. Picking it up it snapped its bill loudly and sticking at my hand with its delicate little below down than though