Midlsex Co., Mass. 21 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1874 Calendula, D. atrapa Zon. albiostri, Poecetis Gram (number) & Spiz. fusca (Scial). Saw numbers of J. pallasii; they were frequently eaten & living and uttend in addition to the chick a plaintive note which I now hear at this season before. I once bymeans is now excessively abundant and I saw flocks of 50 to 100. The chip of D. palmarum is not unlike that of D. discolor or D. aestiva, & quite different from that of coronata. Brutus boidis is beginning to appear on its old haunts Autumn is perhaps now at its fullest perfection and the woods are everywhere perfect canopies of gold, green and crimson. Sunday Oct. 18 Cloudy & warm, taking a walk in our garden after breakfast I found it littall full of birds juncos & robins predominating. Several Turdus pallasii was hopping about under the pear tree & one of them carmmed uttering the note heard yesterday but the air being very still & heavy with moisture it had a slightly different sound and while listening to it it suddenly came on me like a revelation that this was the note which I have so often heard at night in Me. & on Fresh pond of a frosty Oct. morning while waiting for the ducks to come in. A few moments of careful attention & criticism convinced