84 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1875 April 2 been but too briskly at work and the entire graph grove which surrounds the farm was levelled to the earth and arranged in melancholy (to me) piles of cord wood. My disgust was further in some degree prolfied by the discovery that it had become an even more congenial haunt of the Blackbirds than of yore. All these species were then feeding briskly among the brush ferns and I limited my contribution on the nesties to the extent of two specimens (2 319). On the way back saw a Beryl Aleyan or Alder's brook and fired a flying shot at him without success. I forgot to mention that I saw a pair of Humdros Breslor about my bores this morning. Nurs in all my experience have I known the Bird come so suddenly and in such numbers as this spring. The fields are now nearly bare but the snow lies deep corruption in the woods and the meadows are still covered with thick, albeit rotten, snow ice. Robins began to appear about the gardens yesterday and to day are abundant. At twilight this evening they were singing all about our house and I recognized in one with a rather wheepy voice bird old acquaintance that has visited on farm a number of summers. A Song Sparrow also which has bred in Mr. Chates yard for the five past summers (which I know at once by X) a peculiarity of song affound among the first to now sing regularly in this program.