44 1874 Nov. 24 I quickly approached within 25-yds of him and at hailed him instantly with a charge of No. 3. He seemed not at all shy for I've several times peered at me by the rock & then quickly drew back. He looked very large and showed no color except white (the specimen has an unusual predominance of black feathers) and when he was first pointed out to me kept flapping about & hopping with half spread wings as if through apprehension of joining his fine neighbors with the black rod by which he was surrounded. Oenophila coccinea was not nearly so abundant as on the 20th and the finch's excelled them numerically in the proportion of 15 to 1. The latter sat more on the hills though I several times saw the larks feeding them in the close cropped fescue grass. All of the (? Lapponica) were in company with the larks and now only distinguishable from them by the whitish instead of yellow's throat while feeding, and the smaller size and slightly different flight while on wing, the depressed aspect at that time being quite indistinguishable as may be better understood upon comparing them on the 3rd. This note is for a close affinity to that of males I heard two, on a single small thrush has yellower than the breeding's that others & thrush strikingly similar to that bird.