158 April 1874 1874 Middlsex County, Mass. Watertown. Apr. 14 Was with warm S. wind; rather too much wind in fact for a good day. Feeling nearly well of any powthreat I took my guns after breakfast & can up on the farm". Birds were remarkably quiet & shy & hardly at all singing. Took some eight specimens Saw for first time Regulus calendula Dend. Pinas, D. macularius & S. galbasi. The kinglet was singing most exquisitely & with full vigor. Saw two D. pinus both males & both attracted me by their song which however was not uttered with the usual strength but rather in undertone. The S. galbasi were fluttered about in various places I must have seen half a dozen in all! The only note I heard was the usual characteristic chuck; one little group of three I found exceedingly shy & so much that I followed them a long distance before getting a shot. The migration of juncos is apparently at its height; I must have seen 38 in one flock their snaks uttering this monotonous songs & chasing one another continually through the trees Heard several Bse. fuliginae in the air overhead but saw none lighted. Saw Anthopa butterflis for the first time but there is but little stirring up of vegetation yet except in my shaded places & the ground this morning was frozen hard. The bicolour appeared again to day in our yard; they have been about since the 25th!