New note of Sphyrapicus varius Philadelphia Habits of the Night Hawk Monday May 31st Clear with cool N.W. wind. Off after breakfast taking my boat and going out down on the lake while S. V K took the Tyler road. I shot 14 birds the best Picidus arcticus 2, Sand, Black brunnied 5-6's, E.flaviventeris 1, D.castanea 2-6'; My.canadensis 8'. Found two nests of Sphyrapicus varius both in high beech stubs at least 30 ft. above the ground and possibly inaccessible. Heard a new note from this bird to day; it was a chattering cry analogous to the peculiar you-wick, you-wick of Olatipo but more run together and not as emphatic. Heard a number of D.castanea singing. This song is very uniform in different individuals and is almost undistinguishable from the feeble variation of E.rutila's song; it also resembles somewhat the cree cree cree of Regulus atrapa. Redstarts are especially abundant here and I notice that nearly all the male are adult birds (picked out of hundreds that I have seen singing) I do not now recollect a single immature individual. Quiscalus purpureus is quite abundant among the stubs and dry tan) so much so in fact that it is perfectly easy to walk up within 16-yds. of them. I heard another Buteo Pennsylvanicus in the woods this morning. Its shrill whistle sounded quite plaintive in the distance. Have not seen a single Helminthophaga of either species or D.trigona this week. Stony River with L.Vires Phil, and Harrison killed another. Night hawks came about the house in unusual numbers at the evening; I killed two. They come swooping in over a little garden patch in M.Abbotts and after scaling along like posts near the ground they make a bay side I shot at on the