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than that of the Wood Pewee, but very closely resembles it. Noth- 

 ing like their very bright and quick note of 'chicadee.' At a dis- 

 tance the last syllable seems only a continuation of the second." 

 The two Kinglets he found commonly. 



Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (PoliojHila cacrulea). — He took only one 

 specimen, when he "took a ride down the bay just for fun," namely, 

 a male at Silver Springs, R. I., on June 24, 1875 (Coll. W. F. H., 

 No. 1555). There are seven records for Massachusetts of this bird, 

 all of a later date, and seven for Connecticut. Two ,of these are 

 earlier and one for the same year from Providence, R. I., all four 

 mentioned by Purdie in Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club II, 1877, including 

 Dr. Shores' specimen.. There are only four specimens all told 

 from Rhode Island. 



Of the Turdidae we find the Bluebird, the Veery, and the Her- 

 mit Thrush mentioned as common, the last one arriving as early 

 as April 2, 1877, and leaving as late as November 1, 1882. The 

 Olive-backed is less common and the Wood Thrush common only 

 about every third year. 



Robin (Planesticus mi gra forms). — Common. Sometimes stays 

 all winter, as January 2, 1879. While living at Hampton, Va., Jan- 

 uary 12, 1892, we find this record in the diary: "A fine male pre- 

 sented by Sam L. Garrett, shot at Curratuck County, North Car- 

 olina. Curiously marked with white and black. Albinistic and 

 melanistic mixed. Part of the breast, Avings and tail alone natural 

 color" (Coll. W. F. H., No. 1335). 



And then the book becomes silent, only to be opened four 

 years later, in 1896, stating, that, owing to his father's death 

 and his moving from place to place, he sold his cabinet with 

 1,91(5 skins and his osteological specimens to Frank Blake 

 Webster Company. He retained the number of 302 skins. Once 

 more the book is opened, in 1900, and two specimens recorded 

 as taken at Fort Caswell, N. C, where he lived after the Span- 

 ish-American war. The two specimens were a Black-bellied 

 Plover and a Turnstone. Then he goes on to state that he 

 might be called to the Philippines for medical service and 

 works almost day and night to perfect his magnificent collec- 

 tion of seaweeds. And that ended his career as an Ornithol- 

 ogist and the diary. Mrs. Shores wrote me that the Doctor 

 died at Schenectady, N. Y., on May 6, 1906, after they had 

 lived there for about four and a half years. 



I never knew this man personally, but you will agree with 



