Three Birds rare in 'Framingham, M^aciru^etfs^Hydrochelidon 
nigra surinamensis. — June 20 , 1889 , found my brother with the writer 
floating in our canoe, down the Sudbury River in Wayland near the 
dividing line of Wayland and Sudbury. We had arrested the canoe’s 
progress opposite a bunch of lillypads, hoping to draw a pickerelfrom the 
shady depths, when our attention was drawn towards a small dark colored 
bird, also fishing for some member of the finny tribe. I caught up the 
gun and fired but missed. Further down the river we again met the bird 
and at long range dropped it into the water. I had never seen the bird 
before, but descriptions pronounced it a Black Tern, which it proved to 
be; a perfect adult male in full plumage. The bird was so near the line 
when first seen that I enroll it in the list of our birds. Since then, I 
understand that Mr. C. J. Maynard, of Newtonville, Mass., secured’a 
companion bird, possibly about ten days previous, near the same place. 
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