Chatham, Mass. 320 1876. Friday May 5 Cloudy with wind E. left Boston at 8 A.M., on the O.C. & R. with Messrs Cory & Hull and arrived at Norwick at 12. Thence by stage 8 miles to Chatham which we reached by 2 P.M. Put up at one Abnzo Nye's, with whom Cory was acquainted and changing our things started out at once in quest of birds. I shot a fine & Stunnella magna that sprang under my feet from the beach grass and later in afternoon shot both barrels at a G Cirkus Redwing that gassed me within long range. Hull shot a very fine Reglairs Johnson's. Stunnella magna is more abundant here than any place I have ever been in but can also more shy than I have ever seen them before. Saturday May 6 Cloudy with E. wind. Commenced raining at about 10 A.M. and rained hard all the rest of the day. Brose at 5 A.M. and getting breakfast started off in a dory with Son. Nye as boatman, to pull out to the S. end of Monomoy Island. Both wind & tide being against us the progress was necessarily tree slow, and we did not reach our set destination till 2 P.M. with a tow behind a sail boat the last 4 miles to foot. We saw by the way a number of interesting birds, among others small companies of Sterna Caspia (or S. regia) at intervals, both alone and among the gulls. They set on the sand bard exactly like as the smaller Species do and this flyd.