120 Song of D. tigrina, D. striata, Cervicotta and Breeding note of Pipilo erythropthalmus May 20 - 1875 May 20 Clear with high wind. Row at 6 and had Charles drive me up to Wamley where I spent the forenoon on the hill, took 14 birds the best D. tigrina 3, Hy. ludoviciana 2 3, D. caerulescens 1 3 etc. The barn May warbler was among low cedars in the sand place when Mr. Whitney first one on the 17th. It was singing in the same way as one seen near our house at Watertown in the spring of 1869 - a rather feeble trilling strain very like and variation of the redstart or one of Parula war, but recognizably distinct from either, and quite different from the decided summer song in M. It was excessively fat - indeed all the birds on this season, sparrows, warblers thrushes, are difficult which fact is I think attributable to the very slow advance of the season which keeps the birds creature bound, and prevents the full development of that settler migratory tenetness so inimical to obesity. Redd. colonata is still very abundant and I saw a & D. jalmeus the last of the season. Cardus Swainsoni was singing in several places this morning. Heard another red Crossbill practicing and several thrush caught the distant call note of individuals that were flying about on the woods, Heard the low low note of Pipilo erythropthalmus which I believe I saw earlier before though it has occasionally come to my notice - a feeble geep. Skating an old stump in the Wamley swamp I was much delighted at the sudden appearance