Quiscalus q . aeneus . 
Concord, 
1898. 
Oct. 19. 
(Wo. 2). 
Oct .26. 
DfOV.9. 
Nov. 12. 
I 
M ass. 
swept over the woods beyond in the direction of Beaver Dam 
Lagoon. As it was nearly dark at the time I am inclined to 
suspect that they roosted at the lagoon with the Rusties to- 
night. They were probably the same birds that I saw at Dav- 
is* Hill last evening for the flock was of exactly the same 
size apparently. 
The recent heavy rains have carried the water nearly to 
spring pitch and the Great Meadow is now completely submerged. 
This fact is doubtless the cause of the breaking up of the 
A , , . neither 
great Blackbird roost. I have A seen nor heard any birds fly- 
ing that way of late. 
Late in the afternoon a flock of about 100 Bronzed Grack- 
les followed a minute or two later by a second flock of fully 
300 passed over the Barrett House flying S.W. The first 
flock was at an elevation of about 300 ft., the second at an 
immense height, fully l/s mile I thought. 
About the Barrett house I saw, late in the afternoon, 
two flocks of Bronzed Grackles flying S.W. Without doubt they 
were a part of the flight that I witnessed at the same place 
at the same hour on the 9th but on the present occasion they 
were moving at a moderate height - certainly not over 300 ft. 
above the ground. I am now convinced that there must be a 
roost not far off to which they go every evening. The course 
