150 March 1874 1874 March 12, middl of the day we full song in Mr. Hillards yard Newport. I have bar known this occur before for at least a week after this general arrival... At sunset I saw a large flock so at least flying N. high up in the air. Gorms Lane. I noticed also towards evening, pushing North in compact bodies of 30 or more, A single A. phoeniceus passed over my head bound in the same direction, and the blue birds & myg Sparrows have certainly thrbled this numbers one yesterday. March 21 Than but cool with N. wind. After breakfast started for a tramp on the farm taking my new gun b. loads. As I took the car in front of the barn a Par. Wiaca was singing beautifully in the opposite yard & I detected heard others fluttering about among the cressons. One the farm birds of all th. to be expected birds were in abundance. On the tall oaks around the little pond were half a dozen or more of red kings & their old familiar "quack a see" called as moral pleasant recollections of Green meadows, but hollowy seas of waving green grass, & the croak of the saily the mellow trill of the thrumps Sparrow. On the larger asparagus bed I found a flock of about 100 A. cedarosum feeding for the first time on the brines, I certainly