Quiscalus quiscula aeneus. Large flock of Bronzed Grackles. Megalloway River, Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1900. As we (the Stones, George Farnsworth and I) were wait- Sept.5 ing for the team which had been engaged to take us up to Fred Flint's where we were to spend the night, a Bronzed Grackle flew past us up the river and we had driven scarce half a mile along the road towards Flint's when we started an enormous flock of these birds from a grain stubble. They flew into a large topped leafy maple which they completely covered as with a black pall. A moment later they began re- turning to the stubble in detachments scaling down to the ground on set wings and soon fairly blackening it over a con- siderable space. There could scarcely have been less than- 300 birds in the flock and I should be inclined to put the number even higher. No doubt the Grackles represented the combined colonies which bred and were bred about the Lake last summer. There would be comparatively little food there now and they get rich pickings on the grain stubble of the fertile Megalloway farms.