Middlsex Co., Mass. 73 1875 1/6.26 having been frozen during the recent cold period, Dr V.M. mounted my Condylura and was much interested in dissecting him. The eyes were exceedingly minute, not larger than --- and were simply attached to the inside of the skin and lying on a layer of muscle without the slightest apparent socket and when the skin was turned over the skull coming off with it. The ears (internally) are very perfectly developed. The body was well laid in fat and the swollen rotundity of the tail was due entirely to a large mass of that substance which was attached to surrounded the caudal vertebrae. Sep 8. Saw a bright pair of Carpodacus purpureus but no Pinicola; the last of that species noted was observed on the 22nd inst. March 2 Cloudy and rather warm. Had a very snow storm yesterday about ten inches falling, and lying in sarsa and drift which coated one the surface so firmly that I much fear the quail have had to suffer. Took a turn up on the farm this morning after breakfast. Among the cedars found the largest flock of purple finches that I have seen this winter at least 80 individual. I think they must have worked up to us from the S. Among them now two fine grosbeaks