306 Point Lepreau, N.B. 1876 April 18. thick clumps or clusters, loons, long neck & feet stretched out behind flapping of wing quite rapid and course always direct. Bider ducks prominent colors & flight heavy always over the water flapfling lower than the coots but not so slow as the brants. Shillbrake flight always at the height of about 20 yds above the water very swift with exceedingly rapid beatery of the wing. Whistler flight highest of any of the fowl here with very rapid wing beats and prominently large head. Cormorant flight exactly like a loon at most times but neck thicker and colors different. Sometimes they sail lower in a half circle of mount straight on with half a dozen quick beats of the wing like a night hawk return rising in the air to boom" frequently or will start up in this way from a flock passing overhead. Their alleged resemblance to brant when flying is only true in so far as related to the order of the flock; the way brats are much quicker & the shape of the bird different. The Wrie grylle always skims slow clon to the water inclines to the right or left every few yards & lights gently like a coot. The old squaws flight has been before mentioned before, they invariably skim along the very surface of the water & their flight reminds me somewhat of Petrel's has a 3 D. wings skin