Quisoalus quiscula aoneus • 
Large flock of Bronzed C-rackles. 
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 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 injdetachments 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. 
