May 1874 Monley, and saw near Bards Pond a very handsome albino Hudson migratorius, which had the entire head & neck white or nearly so; the remaining parts the normal color. The boil on my knees has been discharging for three or four days but it is still my greatest inconvenience that I am barely able to move about at all. May 15 Clear with cool & mild air: Spent the A.M. in the house writing & reading. About noon Henry H. dropped in to show me his cage for birds, and stayed two or three hours talking dicine with me. In the afternoon had my hair combed and took a short drive around Fish P. spending an hour of two on the wood path along the edge of the pine swamp listening to the birds of which I heard several old favorites. The tawny thrushes were in abundance but as is usual on their first apparance, all silent with the exception of their usual monosyllabic notes. Out on the broad green meadows to the E. the bobolinks were holding high carnival & I heard both species of rails at intervals. In the chickadee along the brook a tree acerbraensis occasionally jerked out