Rana halerina 101 Middlesex Co., Mass. MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1875. April 23. [illegible] It was a 6 and the first that I have ever seen in Mass. in Spring. Heard Rana halecinea yesterday for the first time and today heard several (identity unquestionable) of those mysterious insects, frogs or whatever they are, that fill our woods with this cracked voices during the Autumn months. I have never heard them before in spring. Reached the house by 1.30. Late in the afternoon took my gun and shot and walked up to the pinewamp intending to lay for night herons but as I approached the wamp I saw them already going out although the sun had got just set And by the time I got placed to my satisfaction on the edge of Part pond all had departed (four 80 altogether) They fly to the salt marshes very wheezing as in the fall. Sitting among the bushes on the edge of the little pond it was most interesting to hear the varying succession of bird(s other) voices as day gradually passed into night. The robins ended up the former period with a grand chorus, then a brief interval of comparative silence when in the still air the rasping incessant rase of the wood forer could be distinctly heard from the farther side, and the next moment a weird winnowing of wings commencing directly over the pond culminating in almost a