1876. Tuesday April 18th Clear and calm. Went out in the boat immediately after breakfast with Stone and spent the forenoon. Birds commenced flying at sunrise and continued steadily passing until 1 P.M. when they ceased altogether but later in this afternoon a few more large flocks went by. THE Brant as usual predominated and the flocks are now almost exclusively C. perspicillata with a good sprinkling of C. fusca the latter much less often the flock with the brutes bills than the C. perspicillata and almost always flew alone. C. Am is evidently the first to migrate, C. perspicillata next and C. fusca closes the migration. The number of the coots that passed this morning through, almost incredible can well have equalled by the Brant which passed in perfect multitude. Of the latter hundreds of flocks were seen and these were barely composed of less than 100 individuals. Their notes which I heard often are a confused and rather feeble gabble not nearly so musical as the hoot of B. canadensis. Their flight is usually about 18 ft above the water and they are generally crowded together in clusters, this happens is almost precisely like that of the wild goose. Several large flocks of S. mollissima passed and on gave no a long shot but in fallo