274 MASS. (Middlesex) 1876. Amphelis cedrotum flock of 15 Watertown A.S. Fraser Crows Am. migrating - Shooting habits of Birds, March 22 1876 March 22 Cold and cold with very high N.W. wind. In P.M. drove up to Maynard's taking my gun in the buggy. On the Winchester place I spied two Crows sitting in a willow tree and firing a very long shot at one of them from the buggy it fell dead after flying some twenty or thirty rods; its companion or mate which had flown on ahead turned and hovered over it until driven off by my up a great outcry. In Watthan I killed another crow one of a large flock that were feeding in a field near the road and had again the whole flock hovered over the prostrate bird, bowling themselves nearly house and sweeping down at intervals acting in fact almost precisely like times under similar Circumstances. All the crows were I think migrants from the S. as I saw large loose flocks all day winging their way Northward against the high wind. Saw also in Watthan an immense flock of Aeg. Phoeniceus, at least two hundred. They lit in a huge oak fairly blackening it with their sable numbers and uttering their varied notes in the usual jingly discordant strain. Albert Fraser shot them cedar birds from a flock of fifteen in Watertown this afternoon - this is their first appearance - very late. He also saw a flock of about thirty blue birds feeding on cedar berries. The snow was all carried off by yesterday's heavy (rain) storm) but there is much frost left in the ground still.