MIDDLESEX CO., MASS 22 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1874 one of the corrections of the impression God I was delighted to have at last solved the mystery. I also had a great treat in the song of a S Pigeon Calandula which although not so finished as the spring note was decidedly sweeter & richer in its varied warblings, Hlearde Stta Canade the first one left. Oct 20 Chas and cold water freezing to the thickness of window glass. Rose at 6 and taking a light breakfast of graham bread with a cup of tea started for the meadows; In the Brickyard swamps put up two [illegible] (Falhus Virginianus ) and [illegible] and filled them all the first tin. On the upper meadows did not succeed in finding a single bird though shot "drew" continually and dropping many of them quite fresh, now in abundance? A young man whom I met had been over the meadow yesterday shooting without seeing any birds though he had noticed abundance of "signs"; On the 15 he put up 13 traps & on the two following days 6 respectively. Saw the first Charistina Americana a flock of 10. Also in the pine swamps saw a ficea villlosus & a Spherapicus varius both of which were very shy. Took a Gros. Hymalis'va g Pigeon Calandula and saw several others of both species, also an Angeline Phoenico apparently a male in full plumage. Chry. Finus is now very abundant & a tough