152 March 1874 1874 March 25 Middlesex County, Mass. Watertown, the farm and beyond, walking in all further than I have before for a whole year. The day was very windy and birds quiet; confined to shield bunny exposures. The first specimen I shot was a q Juncus that So Day the least closely approaches q arctictors of the West. It was above & very dry tho' roots (I heard the chuck) the minor nothing alarm sign'd) exactly like q bymnds and in all other aspects indeed I noted no difference till it was record. Also shot five q hymende, a melodia halia ; 6 Schiesphas furcginus five of which including one q.) I found gabbling in their usual discord chorus from a tall oak over the trout brook. A M. melodia, that during teuf'd actually ran so fast (not using its wings at all) that it beat me in a chase 5 yards stretch for a brush pile; I escaped though I am now nearly as quick to throw on my fags as of old. Saw a large flock of Arq phoenius & another of q cedronens near the asparagus beds. Heard very few birds singing this morning except many sparrows & an occasional blubrid; a 6 of the latter that I shot although apparently well & in good spirits, showed on dissection a wound in the abdomen around which the flesh & skin had completely mortific'd. Mr. J. Bann informed me a few days since the woodcock run sun in several places this weeks ago.