300 1876. Sunday April 16 Point Repseaux N. B. Extraordinary flight of fowl, Morning clear with S.W. wind. Clouded up in P.M. and rained hard in the corn, with half a gale from the S. Through the forenoon a few large blocks of coots flew. After dinner took the telescope and went down to the lee side of the point with Mr. Thomas and lay there till 3 o'clock time. The fowl commenced moving almost as soon as we got there and the flight that we witnessed from that time till nearly dark was one that exceeded all my expectations. Thousands upon thousand of fowl were continually passing, straining out in long lines, branched together in masses, -- in every conceivable form of marsh-hen in fact -- all streaming along shore to the Eastward. Nearly all these birds were coot and most of them C. perspicillata in contrast with previous days. Great numbers of brant also flew at least 1000 being observed. Saw two or three good flocks of Eiders also. The first coots lit in the water a good deal to day. In the corn to the W. at least 200 collected in a bed and I watched them a long time through the glass. On the flood I could find only a single pair of C. An., all the others being C. perspicillata. The males are beautiful in their full plumage. Again I distinctly saw them drink the salt water, lifting elevating the bill almost perpendicularly at each sip. The peculiar murmuring motion seems to be made