Point LePream, N. B. 1876 (April 19) I lay dead upon the surface. Upon picking it up my chagrin was greater to find it worthless as a specimen for the lower mandible was entirely gone -- fairly torn out by the roots probably torn off by a rifle ball and certainly done only a few hours before! I heard to day the note of O. fusca several times; 't is a hak-ha-hae very like the note of O. puspilellota but a little higher. Saw a few scattering Eider ducks around the ledges but no flocks since to day. Spent the P.M. packing up for our start home to morrow. The appearance of a flock of O. puspilellota as they come up to the boat is very beautiful, the heads of the males appear snow white. A very remarkable fact is the discrepancy of the sips in the flocks of coots we have seen him. Only two females have been shot & but surely more than two or three can been in flock; indeed frequently flocks of twenty or more are composed entirtly of males. Last night by my dark lamp went out to see the small birds come against the light how's a most interesting sight it was. Sparrows of some species kept coming up like moths, and a candle very now & then on would dash against the glass & fluttering a moment fall to the ground. Some more wary kept coming & going from the streak of light but avoided too close contact. I caught a James sailly as it fluttered against the window,