near york house elm 12th Oct's. no new arrivals. Sun set went in 11 glass 8.2 Cloud, flowing ats. 12 glass 7.2 Fair v 12 124. Hazy, becoming Cloudy, raining a little, snow about 4. hard for few minutes 19 glass 3.7. Still cloudy, and snow at all gone wind N. W. high, clear- ing. 4 & at noon Peeper heard a few times at day light and one last night. Eye Bird 14 46-58 a soft shower morning; hazy mist of A.M. Spraying to hear bird. Many peepers at night 15 33 m. A.M. I had supposed tree sparrows never sung here, but I heard one this mor- nig. The note is very