396 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1876. Friday Oct, 27 Senecura Can. &. trichas Var. Rufus. By. caland General remarks on Bird arrivals etc Clear with cold N. wind. Off after breakfast driving first to the Park lot where I Junt up @ woodcock and missed a good shot at him. Next struck in at Melvin's run and made some remarkab good shooting (for me) killing 3 groun and a turth dove in 4 Consecutin shots. Hanna again worked wonderfully well pointing very groun started (Four others got off unsot at). He however ran on disgracefully as the woodcock, showing no signs of the presence of scent though the bird lay unusually close. The turtle dove now cold among some feathered bishes and startd me at long range going down wind. It was a young & in imperfect plumage, and falling through a birh tree was wrinkled as a specimen by the dislodgment of most of the feathers on our side of the breast. So tender was the skin that it was in several places ripped off in great patches by the friction against the twigs. Saw a Virgin & Geothlypis trichas and one Char. Rufus, Junecos & Lon. albicollis were everywhere in numerous flocks. Pa. Jilaca is also abundant. The first one was shot by Mr. Fox Oct. 14. Saw a single Var. hyemalis & have noticed one or anon every day lately, Birus cyaneas I also see daily. Saw one each of Pygulus calandula and Dend. galmarum, S. coronata is getting here. Many flocks of crow migrating this morning.