110 1874 Jan. 1874 Middlesex County, Mass. Thickt. I was sufficiently near to see distinctly that it held its booty in both feet. Jan. 24 Was visited this morning by my friend Capt. S.S. Bather of Marsters Mills, Cape. He says that Bassanago wilsoni, Ballus virginianus, & For. Carolina (?), are wintering there in numbers as usual. He also started a woodcock (P. minor) about the last of Dec. The snipe frequent a narrow strip of springy marsh, extending above them miles up a small river where the ground grows frays & the grass remains green the Mason Sound. Jan. 28 Had a call this morning from Mr. Edwin Hunt of Wren Nest. He describes Chrysomitis juncus as about thus very winter (this included) but not found in summer. He does not however think that they breed them at this season; he says this winter is a very poor one then for birds, no Pinidea canadensis at all. Regulus patriaca winters there every year in small numbers " 30 Clear & mild. For P.M. took up to Mt. Auburn on the car and tramped all over the farm but saw nothing