Chy. Junius 1875. June 7 in a barberry with one young bird & 2 eggs one quite fresh, that I found also a nest of Gant, nests newly finished 2 D. Pennsylv. with 2 egg each & took a third found on the 3rd with 4 eggs Found a nest of Camp. minimus on the horizontal branch of a yellow pine 20 ft up and almost in the very part where Henry H. & I examined one in 1870. Have not seen a single Trochilus Colubis since the migration & them only on or two. Cyanospiza cyanea is also very rare as well as Co. Americanus, C. erythrope is more than ordinarily abundant. The forest trees are now in full leaf and the season progressing rapidly. Mosquitoes fairly swarm this summer in the woods, and are a great pest. Chy. Junius has been abundant in the apple orchards during the past week, Previous to that I have seen none since some time in the winter; like the crossbills this movement seems utterly unexplainable, and beyond the possibilities of conjecture as to cause & motive. June 8 Clear and not very warm. Rose late from up my journal and started at 11 A.M. for the green heron's nest that I left in the same swamp but arriving there found the whole affair gone. On the way back took a turn in the Maple swamp near Fresh jr crossing and while making my way through the thick bushes came across a L Gertrude's Philo and shot her but at so close range that