Nov. 9 -- 1874 Nov. 9 Cloudy with damp S. wind. After breakfast took a turn up on the farm collecting, Cook Burr. Am 4, Sitta Canadensis 4 & Juncos hyemalis 1, Saw a very fine S. Sitta Canadensis. The S. Carolin. were paired as usual and when one was shot its mate showed considerable solicitude. The other species dissolves all conjugal connection after the breeding season. Saw several Berthia familiaris and Regulas Patrica. Paris streak was in unusual abundance. A few Juncos are still about and Pas. Hiqica is quite numerous. They, tristis are common in small flocks but have seen no Clay. Juncus for some time. Az. micra has also apparently disappeared. Saw two birds flying over our place this morning which attend a nest entirely new to me. I think they must have been Phe. Sapphines. Curvirosta Am. has two notes on the ordinary call and another clear & more bell like. Know that I shot comprised all the numbers of a flock. They were very tame and so fat that they made rather poor specimens. All which I wing tipped I took from air and it is doing my will on a diet of canary seed and cold water. In the cedars above grounds I shot C & Groom from a tree. She sat perfectly motionless with outstretched neck & feathers drawn very close.