shown the prittiest set of Quail Dever saw. They were marked so heavily with old gold blotches (not specked) that the ground color was almost obscured. This set was owned by a young gentleman who possessed an eggs of the Golden Eagle filed into two parts but otherwise not re- markable. Also read today of the shoot- ing Wild Turkeys in 1882 by Howard Abbott at or near Washington, D.C. September-12-1895. In the fore part of the after- noon a large flock of Black- birds assembled in the sugar- beet patch. Every now and then one of them would fly up after some winged insect which it had aroused from its retreat. These insects were I think chiefly moths! and small butterflies and perhaps.