273 Perseus Canadensis from N direction etc. March 18 - 1876 - Clear & cold with high wind. About two inches of snow fell yesterday and the general aspect of affairs this morning is as wintry as possible. Took the horse car for Watertown in the morning and tramped over my usual route. Saw nothing of much interest. Robins were collected together in the woods over the Arsenal in extraordinary numbers but seemed to be the regular winter birds; they had not attacked the asparagus berries at all as yet. Some of the males sang very finely indeed one or two that I heard sounded out this notes with the freedom of May rather than March but still I think that all their birds belong farther N and that our local birds have yet to put in their appearance. A few blue birds were seen this morning said Mr. W.W. Patten whom I met out collecting before told me that he saw on the 17th inst a flock of at least 50 individuals collected together and feeding on cedar berries; Crows were very abundant and noisy this morning. Song Sparrows were about the only birds that I heard singing. No cedar birds have appeared yet though many an anxious watcher for their arrival. Read two Perseus Canadensis & a Q Picidis Arctius from Mr. McLeod, One of the jays was [illegible] with tests perhaps 1/2 developed; the sex of the other I found impossible to ascertain. I though the [illegible] were neither mangled nor bloody. This development is not what I had expected in birds reported to breed so early. A single Molothrus fusca shot in Brookline by J. Meadock