Myctea Nivea Ipswich Mass. 43 1874. Nov. 24-1874 Nov. 24 Alternately cloudy & clear with very high wind & occasional snow squalls. Took the 10 A.M. train to Ipswich and walked down to the edge of the marsh opposite Eagle hill when I found further progress prevented by an unusually high tide which had entirely submerged the intervening marsh. Nothing could be done but wait for the falling of the water so I was obliged to spend two hours in a burrough on the lee side of a large hay stack. While here saw two adult Gireus [illegible] and a pair probably as they were hunting in company. Setting out to the hill at last I found the larks & buntings in abundance and detecting a mate new to me from a flock of the floccate whirly past I knocked for the individual sitting it and was delighted to pick up my first (?) Dapperneuses. Afterwards saw two more but could not add one of them while hours escaped. My attention was at this moment attracted by two Irishmen who were getting stones at something on the further side of a ridge. Upon seeing me they beckoned and shouted & I immediately went over to them when the dog said "if I wanted that out" at the same time coolly pointing at a magnificent Myctea Nivea which was sitting on the mud a short distance off making a circuit so as to bring him behind a large rock