284 Sunday April 2 Histrioicus torquatus Scops Asia - breeding in Cambridge Was warm? Still a lovely April day. However and took a walk up to Fresh Pond before breakfast but saw nothing worthy. Yesterday I secured a magnificent adult & Histrioicus torquatus through the kindness of Mr. John Taylor of the Home New Brunswick. He purchased the bird from one Cornell, a taxidermist at St. Johns N.B., who in his turn bought it of a gunner. It was shot in the Bay of Fundy not far from the city. This morning I skinned & mounted it as it was dry for gun having been dead nearly a week. The flesh was dark like a coot's. The neck turned over the head through with some difficulty; the sexual organs were not much developed. This evening the robins were singing gloriously from the tree tops in our neighborhood, the first general chorus I have heard from them this season. Birds have been somewhat very slowly during the past two weeks as the weather has been for the most part windy and chilly. Mr. Woodward a student and a member of the N.O.B. informed us last evening that he had several times lately seen a pair of Scops Asia in an elm tree on Common St. Cambridge opposite the Botanic garden, and upon watching them he found that they entered an old flickers hole in a rotten twig; they have been seen by him a number of times at or a little after sunset & will probably breed in this tree. This occurrence in so thickly settled a locality is most interesting.