to the height of 6 or 8 feet then returning to the ground appearing and disappearing in (numerous) hops among the cars with marvelous quickness & agility; many of them were barely 1/2 grown & was frequently 6 or 7 cars in sight at once. I estimated the whole colony at about a dozen. Whether they were fighting or at play I could not decide, but thought the latter. On the way back caught my albinos robin in a rather safe place than usual and getting out my gun shot him as he sat in a maple tree one side of the road and got off without any trouble. Upon dissecting him found that from some previous injury his sternum was crushed over to one side giving his body a deformed appearance though he was otherwise in good flesh & apparently healthy. May 29 After I left with E. wind, H.H. Parchi came out on P.M. and at 6 o'clock we started in my buggy for Concord where we arrived at 9 spending much time on the way stopping to listen to the birds &c. A little after sun down the whip poor will struck up on all sides I at