Spaulding, Mass. 41 1874 Nov. 20 but a triple more mellos. They were very tame [illegible] feeding alone but accompanied by the wary ones butting the can was quite different. The latter species was not nearly so abundant. They lit and fed with the shore larks, but did not fly about much with them. Saw but few of either species on the sand hills. About noon happening to strike into a little circular meadow among the sand hills I flushed a bird within a few yards of me which I instantly recognized as P. Principis. I fired at it on wing and found a fine specimen. At the report two others rose and lit near me. Then I followed and killed the first on wing but missed a hard shot at the other. I afterwards heard it chirping loudly but was unable to shoot it again, though we both hunted for it a long time. As the bird rises it looks very large and nearly as white as an albino. It flits irregularly exactly like P. Savannah but its size will at once draw to distinguish it. I did not feel any of them on the ground, though they permitted in every case a near approach before rising. I heard two notes both exactly like the corresponding ones of Savannah, namely the short faint lip and a low chuck. While in reach of the last bird I started a Brachystomus cassinii within ten yards of me, and