Middlesex Co., Mass. 1875- May 13 Clear with high cold wind, blow at 6 A.M. and had Charles drive me up to the Wavley hill when I spent the forenoon collecting and meeting him by appointment at 1 P.M. from home J. York 26 birds the best D. Blackburni & D. caerulescens #8, D. Vireri 7 ?, Pyrrhula rubra & Flyg. Lndovic. 26 10, Arrivals from Wisco Nos. 18, Decumb. g. a ; Rubra 18; Canticus priors I well seen & unmistakable though not shot; the woods were fairly alive with birds and the collecting very easy as the trees are as bare as my printer. Found a Crow nest with young, in a pitch pine but did not ascend to it: the young kept up a continuous whining cry. May 14 Clear with E wind. Spent all the A.M. shinning birds & put up 16. Immediately after dinner started off in the buggy with Henry H. and drove up to Belmont. Henry first tried the hill and shot a pair of Heydumki, Lndovie, a wood thrush and a few others. I then left on to "the willows" when I took a very fine Flyg. Potamine Potamine's Potamine's Potamines a water thrush and a ? Horundo Horrioens. Came home through Prospect St. where we shot a D. discors. Arrivals were D. maculosa 18; My. fuscilus 1 ? ; Siurus moribacamas 2,4; D. Discerta D. &. Osophlus estubis 18 (Cyanodipja cyana 3? (B.D.) A very few cherry blossoms are out.