412 Cambridge May - 1877 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1877 May 16 Through the winter months birds of all kinds were excessively scarce and I saw and heard of so few that I did not think it worth while to take the field and thoro Jan'y, [illegible] and Feb'y I did not fire a shot or make any observations worth recording. Saturday March 3d I started for Florida where I spent the rest of [illegible] month, returning to Georgia on April 5th and remaining at St. Mary's in that State until May 4th when I started for home and landed in Boston May 16th. A more detailed record of this trip will be found in another Journal. Arriving at home late at night I woke early the next morning to hear the Robins singing in the Lindens trees the first robins I had heard this year. Everything was very backward in Mass, and [illegible] to the day of my arrival there had been Twenty days of East wind, and chilly cloudy weather. But Sunday May 13 was warm and pleasant and since then the Wind has been mostly from the S.W. the ther. about 75-80 at noon and the vegetation and birds have come again. This afternoon I took my collecting jacket and with Wild Stones drove up to the willows where I shot Twelve birds, all common ones for Allen, except a My. pusillus b'. May and June Through the remainder of this month I remained in Cambridge but collected only little my time being otherwise taken up. I was 16th I went to Concord Mass. when I passed the entire summer