Watertown, Mass. 1872 March 9, 18 Mar. 9 Rose at 7 o'clock and took a tramp up through Watertown. Found several flocks of N. colusmon on the farm and fire four shots (5-5-4-4) killed 18 one of them with curious white spots on the primaries and two with red on the tails. Saw about thirty P. migratoria, and shot one. Held the first Song Sparrows of spring singing vigorously at intervals of half a minute or more. Many of the Robin men also singing but in that peculiar warbling undulation peculiar to both this bird and N. Rubicola before the time opening of the song season) Saw four Silver sparrows about as thin had been more thin on the farm through the winter, have no doubt but they have begun working up from the North. Saw also a Colaptes and shot a junco by in smutting condition all covered with his feathers. In the afternoon took a ride and saw two Phj. monticola; they are however very scarce now as the birds continue forth we have begun to move North. 19 For the last ten day the weather has been very cold and wintry the ther not rising much above freezing at noon or 7 at night falling often to 10. Should light fall I snow. March 14 N. M. Henshaw thought he heard a Sialia sialis but another spring birds have been detected. Went up on the farm this morning with Honey but shot only a single Panus Strigip. Saw a flock of about (a dozen) junco hyemalis some of the 3 singing though their notes were not quite perfect. Amphilis edwmon is quite lean and