Briga maritima, Zon. lutescens Dend. tigrina. Nests of Sicala flori and Mdl. melodia. 123 1875. May 22 - 1875 Middlesex Co., Mass. May 22 hawk's crest but was utterly unsuccessful, though I struck found the & bird sitting on a tussock near when I observed him plunging yesterday. Stated Sural Rails (R. Vir.) and a bittern but do not think they have laid yet. Birds are very cold this year in their nesting. Robins and bluebirds have but barely commenced incubation. I took a nest of the latter from a box in our garden, this morning, containing 5 fresh eggs. Saw Muscovy My junculus et Canadensis but did not shoot any as I should have had no time to skin them. Am very positive that I heard a B D. tigrina singing in Waverly but the locality being dangerous I did not attempt to shoot him. Coming home through Prospect St. I started a pair of Zon lutescens out of the road and trying the birds I shot down both but could find only one, the ♀. Heard the B sing several times; the song as noted in 1873 is very plaintive and commonly exactly the same time and key as that of Poetes gramineus; it was also very feeble but I have no idea that what I hear here is the full finished performance and indeed it may be far from it as in the case of D. tigrina and Zon. albicollis. At this place found a nest of M. melodia with 5 fresh eggs. From what I saw this afternoon I judge that a very many flight of birds passed us today, Briga maritima in