"bushes from which they were picking off insects. Six hundred 
birds would he a very low estimate for the total number 
assembled in this meadow. Of these, fully 90 °/o were White- 
bellies, Qfo Barn Swallows, and the remaining 2$ Eave and 
Bank Swallows. We saw no Ducks and but few Red-wings on 
this meadow but several Marsh Harriers were beating about its 
borders® 
On the Maryland meadow above the lower bridge were 
many more Swallows, among which we noticed a number (perhaps 
a dozen) of Egve Swallows. The latter as well as the Bank 
Swallows have evidently only begun to arrive. The White- 
bellies must be largely migrants for nothing like the numbers 
present to-day can breed in the adjoining region. 
After passing the upper bridge we landed and 
paid Mr. Dudley a visit. He pressed me to spend the night 
at his house and said that Bolles could be accommodated at the 
Heard's on the opposite side of the road. As the weat'b©# 
had turned bitterly cold we were not sorry to get under a 
warmer shelter than our canoe tents so the matter was quickly 
decided. Shortly before sunset we walked over to Heard’s Pond. 
The sky was now clear but the north wind roared through the 
tree tops and there was little singing. On the shore of the 
pond we heard a Phoebe, in some pines a Pine Warbler, and on 
the edge of a thicket saw a Yellow Red-poll Warbler in company 
with a Pine Warbler and two Chickadees. A Bittern was pumping 
in the brook meadow to the west and an immense flock of 
