156 West Va April 1874 1874 Petroleum, West Va. April 26 Cloudy & cold; this not I should say, about 40° Wind W. After breakfast took a walk down the railroad and saw a number of birds. Cardinals Bis. ran in great abundance and [illegible] in full song. I saw also Pipilo eryth. N. Speciosus &c. Sp. Insilla, Zon. albicollis Sturnus pubis ?s. P.D. saw them or fan S. ludovicianus, Z. Cassinanus & a Phyllosta canula. I shall defer a description of the country until I become more familiar with its details. Miss. Dorsey & Dean found a nest of Sayoras from this morning containing six eggs, two of which was spotted, and several of them as much so as average specimens of Contopus virgus. The nest was attached to the stem work under a bridge and differed but little in architecture, from Norton examples. The eggs were quite far down set or advanced, perhaps a week or ten days. In the P.M. I went out just before sunset & heard a Sc motthinus in full song. The Pipilos are easy about. The song of the is differs not much from Man examples but the chirink is totally different & continually declins so: it is a harsh tow-gosh, very guttural & characteristic invariably of all I have seen,