Arrivals 26. horsecress - am. Belant, Mm. Mel. palustris - G. A. Bancroft, 24th & Dam. 313 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1876. April 26) The two were several pullets as usual. Then was no nest material beyond the factory. The sitting bird examined by J. Set was like the one that I saw the same morning, a gray owl. Last year the bird with three young was red. After leaving here I searched all the orchards on Flagstaff Hill but found nothing. Returning home by way of the plowd saw a single B. horsecross Mel. palustris were seen in numbers yesterday by or on the 24th by R. Dean. J. M. drove up to the willows with Aggar and visited the grove where I found my Buteo linatus nest last year, but the plot was pulled down - probably rotted as J. has seen the birds there lately. Then visited several fields art both and found pullets under them but no bird or nest therein. Saw I heard a member of B. Calandra. Saturday April 29 Clear and a lovely day. Took the 7:30 train for Boonville intending to hunt for the nest of the red-tailed hawks that I saw near the depot in 1875. Found the bird sitting on nearly the same tree when I entered him last season and upon nearing the spot he rose high in the air and sailed for a long time overhead but I could not find the nest though I searched all the woods in the neighborhood. Found two crows' nests, both in the extreme tops of pines. Both birds startled off