38 1872 Ornithological and sporting journal 1872 Jan. 2 Obtained a Muscus serrator in the market with sketches of black coming just about the head and was much surprised to find on dissection that it was a ?. Jan. 3 At a meeting of the Boston Soc. Nat. History last evening I was appointed assistant to Dr. Brewer on birds. Jan. 10 A specimen of Shrenella magua was obtained by B. Ward on the Belmont meadows from a flock that always goes there: it had the black cravat really pure as new spring, "12 Saw two S. migratorius (a single Am. cidzorum) near a cedar grove on Belmont hill: this is the earliest spring date I have of the latter but I think it probable that they all there have continued there although this will soon be an orfury of birds N. Jan. 13 Found in the market three or four "Harlda glacius new, that came in with some Whistlers" from Providence R.I. Jan. 14 drove over to Brooklawn for S.M. with Mr. J. Nestit and with him called on I was introduced to Mr. E. A. Boardman: found him a three small nervous man, plain but a perfect gentleman without. He informed me that he has found Cow. lucostilia breeding both in winter & summer that Col. purigina is always common through the summers that D. castanea breeds sparingly while D. tigrina