Birds 
at night 
Red-tails 
replaced 
by Red¬ 
shouldered 
Hawks 
Red-winged 
Blackbirds 
Bobolinks 
the first and last giving their flight songs from which I 
infer that they rose into the air, although this does not 
certainly follow. The night was superb, a nearly full moon 
silvering the water and lighting up the openings in the 
surrounding woods while the wind had died to a gentle breeze 
that rustled the foliage soothingly. We were asleep by ten 
o*clock. 
Red-shouldered Hawks seem to have replaced the 
Red-tails within the last two years along the entire route 
which we traveled to-day. They were frequently in sight 
or hearing while not a single Red-tail came under our notice. 
Red-winged Blackbirds are about as numerous as they were 
last year but certainly much fewer in numbers than in 1886 
and 1887. Bobolinks were quite up to the standard of their 
former abundance and were rarely out of our hearing the 
entire distance between Goncord and Wayland, but no Meadow 
larks were heard anywhere between these two towns, on the 
immediate outskirts of which they are common. 
