90 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1875. April 16 - 1875 Apr. 16 Upon the morning of the 13th inst it commenced snowing and the storm raged with unabated violence through that day and the preceding night, and when it at length ceased on the next morning at least twelve inches had fallen on the land and the drifts in many places were very deep. Altogether it was as violent a storm so we had at any time during the winter. Yesterday the ther did not rise much above 40° So that little impression was made on the snow, This morning after breakfast I set out for a tramp striking up our th "Mtn. farm" I found the snow very deep especially in the woods and the walking hard. Saw several D. june all 8 and Call singing. They were seen at Newton last Sunday. Among the cedars was a flock of Pss which the 8 sing's most exquisitely. In the apple orchard below I heard several 8 Regulus Satropa singing as lusty as in Me. or Penn. The song is entirely without melody. I shot a pair and found that they had assumed the summer plumage. Here I also shot a 8 Sialis Nila; as he fell struggling into the snow his mate uttered a cry of anxiety and hovered over him a moment but as I approached quickly made off warbling very like a 8 but rather imperfectly (Compare similar Strutain sp. 88) and was soon out of sight. Keeping on up to the Asenal woods I shot a cross which flew over our within good