May 1874 his great duty & a remarkably fine performer he was too, one of the best I ever heard. This season is certainly ornithologically lucking a perfect paradox. Dead Coronate as still abundant and numbers of Scl. ferrugineus as full with us while most of the summer bird seem to be seen. I saw the same albino robin & in the same place as yesterday. I had rather a better view of him to day & as nearly as I could make out, he has a perfectly white ring around his neck with the head & throat blotched conspicuously with the same color. Possibly it is pigment but he seems to me clearly one third larger than the typical bird. Apropos it has just occurred to me that I saw in passing the same place last season a bird with much white about the back & scapulars & this may possibly be the same still further out and now proved or perhaps one of its offspring returned to the spot of its nativity. On the way back called in at the Vestibule for a few minutes & saw them both. They informed me that there was a good flight of bird last week, the birds remaining on the swadows from May 5th to 9th. On man taking their on the farm day.