Middlury Co., Mass. 61 MASS. (Midway Co.) 1875 Jan. 28 As the Boyman Place in Waltham hoping to gett some red grosbeaks. At the foot of Belmont hill I got a shot at a lightish colored adult o' which with one in the slaty jibmage was feeding on the berries of the back thorn bushes, but unaccountably missed them both although they were within easy range and sitting clos together. Saw no more grosbeaks during the forenoon though at our place I tied my horse and took a tramp of a half mile or so among the cedars. Robins are very other. I saw them at three points and in one spot (foot of Flag Staff hill) as many as 50 now sitting about on the Apple trees or chasing on another in wanton playfulness! The attraction here consists in a small chump of the backthorns on which charitably black berries they must subsist almost entirely. This affords over of them birds in such numbers at so early a date, and especially at the very height of the present un- precedented cold period, must be ranked among those mysterious phenomena of bird migrations about which it is worse than useless to devise or conjecture. That there were no more that a few isolated individuals or small companies of them through this section at the beginning of the present month I am certain now the county is swarming with them, indicates