D palmarum at Nye Garden Habits of Scot. ferrugineus Apr. 12 - 1875 Middletown, Mass. march with affecting ostentation came dashing down at me and snapped his bill angrily within a foot or two of my head until he too, "o miserabile dieter" met the like fate. Saw also a pair of Argiothus laniaria (shot one of them) and two Mil. Palustris (also one shot). Met Nat. Nesbitt who had started a pair of Woodcock and a bag of 10 quail in Belmont. Assails were! Nye, Garden's 5; (seen last night by R. Dean) Bend. palmarum 18. The flock of Scot. ferrugineus was a very large one at least 150 individ. They fed among the brush piles and dense thickets along the edge of the swamp hopping in and out among the fallen tops and debris like rosemary mice. All were on the ground at once, no sentinels being posted. Upon being alarmed the whole body would rise up into the neighboring trees and set up a most infernal clatter, every bird apparently making as much noise as he could. On the ground they were invariably silent; a low chuck of recognition when two met being at most the only sound uttered. While feeding they were quite tame, in the tree tops the reverse. A large flock of Bivola (ornatus) seen flying overhead yesterday (R. Dean) & J. Jeff visited a flock at Concord on the 8th inst.