Assual - Deterus spurus Bordalus Propetue by Cyana Dend, Stricta 333 P rubra My. Canadianis MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1876. Friday May 19 Clear and a lovely day. Spent the entire day skinning birds all helping Stone to help me. Walking out in the garden after breakfast saw a pair of Deterus spuris, They were one of those immature greenish birds with a black throat. Came in and got my gun but when I got out again they were missing. The roth was as marked in Doc exactly like the one of the red wing blackbird. Heard a Garden Swamphone' Singing faintly in the garden at sunset. Sunday May 21 Cloudy with thunder showers. Spent all day yesterday with Stone working on the birds brought up from Chatham and finished them by evening making in the two days our thirty skins and all mounted. This morning heard the faint warble of D. Stricta in one garden. The trees are leafing out very fast and vegetation is unusually green and luxuriant this spring. In the P.M. took a ride up through the willows Heard Cy. cyana chirping and saw a Contopus virius. Gaze saw several P. rubra and a My. Canadianis. Ther 60° in P.M. Monday May 22 Clear and hot, Ther 65. This morning heard an indigo bird singing in our garden also a My. Canadianis et M. fusculus. The song of the latter resembles that of the water thrush but possesses more of its beauty. Represented in words it is like she ti-ti-ti-ti-ter. The bird has also a complaining whining sort something like that of the vireos. It just its,