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Towhees here since the 22d of April. Robins are plenty now, 

 and two pairs of Brown Thrashers are nest-building. 



The Wood Thrushes are fewer in number ; the flocks of 

 White-throated Sparrows are gone, too. The Veery ( ?) and 

 Song Sparrow are often heard. 



Cold and rainy, but the Cardinal came to-day, and the first 

 Oven-bird. Male Cardinal was very busy in a brush-heap, 

 feeding the female, who disdained even looking for food for 

 herself. The Cardinals do not notice the interurban car, even 

 when it whistles not twenty feet from them. 



April 27. — The earliest Catbird came ; the Bluebirds are 

 here again, tame as ever. They were very curious about a 

 bonfire, hardly waiting for the flames to die down before in- 

 vestigating it. The Indigo Bunting was here, taking a drink 

 from a pan of water about thirty feet from the kitchen door. 



The Black and White Warbler came again ; he " fished 

 up " an angleworm somewhere and was seen pounding it 

 vigorously on a small branch, before he finally ate it. Did he 

 pull it out of the ground as Robins do? 



April 30. — Male and female Rusty Blackbird appeared ; la- 

 ter they made a nest in a pear tree about ten feet from the 

 house. 



May 2. — Hummingbird in the tulip bed. 



May 5. — Oven-birds still here, but the flock, or number, is 

 smaller. The Ruby-crowned Kinglet is here yet ; flocks of 

 White-throated Sparrows are here morning and evening. A 

 Sora (Carolina Rail), was in the yard this morning. It 

 seemed confused, and attempts to get a closer view resulted 

 in driving it away. Wilson Warbler here to-day. 



May 6, (i :00 p. m. — Saw and heard the Rose-breasted Gros- 

 beak. 



May 8. — The Least Flycatcher was observed in an apple- 

 tree ; shy, and very busy. The Wrens are nest-making. A 

 female Towhee was here : the others earlier, March D-April 

 22, were all males, and have been gone more than ten days ; 

 they were fearless, but this one is very shy. 



The Wood Thrushes are gone, so are the White-throated 

 Sparrows. A Warbler, the Cerulean, almost surely, was here 

 to-day ; shy. 



