June 8 - 1874 Snake & power of charming June 8 Clear & warm. The weather for the past three or four days has been quite hot but the oaks etc. are now in nearly full leaf. After breakfast drove up to the Warren "farm" when I tied my horse and struck through the woods to the West for a mile or two. Shot only 1 bird the last a [illegible] Phil. Chrysophila, v a D. Penns.) Cont. views for mounting. H. chrysip. has sometimes three notes (exclusive of the preliminary one) more commonly two & occasionally only one: its song cannot be heard much over 100 yds although when you are near it seems very loud. Contopus virius has no note that can be called under my definition a song as I shot the [illegible] gathering the phe phoe. Witnessed this morning one of Nature's tragedies: while walking quietly along the edge of a small meadow encircled by heavy woodland I was attracted to the edge of the bushes by a juble calling note very like the chatter of Jays, etc. Walking quietly up to a clump of raspberry bushes whence the sound proceeded, I found myself within a yard of a Pardina fusca that was acting in a very strange manner hopping backwards & forwards between two twigs with dropping & spreadal wing & tail, &gm & panting mouth.