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out of my catalogue. No other bird’s absence 
has surprised me so much; and it is the more 
remarkable because the comparatively rare yel- 
low-bellied species is to be met with nearly 
every season. Cedar-birds show themselves ir- 
regularly. One March morning, when the 
eround was covered with snow, a flock of per- 
haps a hundred collected in one of the taller 
maples in the Garden, till the tree looked from 
a distance like an autumn hickory, its leafless 
branches still thickly dotted with nuts. Four 
days afterward, what seemed to be the same 
company made their appearance in the Com- 
mon. Of the flycatchers, I have noted the 
kingbird, the least flycatcher, and the pheebe. 
The two former stay to breed. Twice in the 
fall I have found a kingfisher about the Frog 
Pond. Once the fellow sprung his watchman’s 
rattle. He was perhaps my most unexpected 
caller, and for a minute or so I was not en- 
tirely sure whether indeed I was in Boston or. 
not. The blue jay and the crow know too 
much to be caught in such a place, although 
one may often enough see the latter passing 
overhead. Every now and then, in the travel- 
ing season, a stray sandpiper or two will be ob- 
served teetering round the edge of the Common 
and Garden ponds; and one day, when the lat- 
ter was drained, I saw quite a flock of some 
