Abundance of small birds 220 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1875. Nov. 9 Clear still, and though cold a most lonely day. Have been confined to the house by sickness ever since my return from the Cape but this morning unable to endure imprisonment any time I took my gun and walking up to the farm spent the whole forenoon collecting Small birds were more abundant than I ever saw them before at this season. This I think may be explained by the fact that the weather up to within the last three days has been very mild and the later birds have remained up North. Yesterday and the day before were both cold windy unpleasant days, the thur, barely reaching 38-0 by noon and snows in greater or less quantity announced from all parts of Northern N.E. This sudden advance of winter has driven the birds S. in masses. Especially abundant this morning were Pas. iHica Hirundo Pallasi, Eg. Patrapa, Janco hyemalis, Parus atricapillus, and Corymus cristata. Saw also two Spizella monticola, sveral Sitta Carolinensis do. Chry, Tristis om Cestrna Am. om Plagus colindrus (2) and at least 30 Red, coronata. Had remarkable luck in my shooting bagging 18 birds in 28 shots. The leaves are now nearly all down in the deciduous woods but I was surprised to find a