Tuesday, March 25, 1869.
  Clear and a most lovely
day. Ther. about 30[degrees] - 44[degrees] - 
32[degrees]. Rose as usual &
walked down to school.
Wrote our third Algebra. My
per. 92. Began Geometry
yesterday. Walked home.
After lunch took my gun &
Dart & started off. Shot a
Tit Lark as it darted over-
head. Then shot six Cedar
Birds only got three. Then
over to Arlington meadows.
Shot Red Wing & listened to
an old Robin singing. Met
setting traps. Saw
a Musk rat a engine house
& got home at 7.30 P.M.
Sturnella Magna, saw one.
Quiscalus Versicolor, saw one. Age-
lanis Phen. saw at least 50.
Turdus Migratorius, heard adult
male singing. Metospiza Melodica,
heard them everywhere.
Eremophila Cornuta, saw a flock
of at thirty & shot one.
Friday, March 26, 1869.
  Cloudy. Began to
rain at about 2 P.M.
and rained hard all
the rest of the day.
Ther. about 30[degrees] - 40[degrees] - 
38[degrees]. Rode down as far
as the Square with
father. Wrote no paper
to day but got out at
recess. Walked home.
In P.M. studied and
pasted in items into my
scrap book. In the
evening went to a reception
at the Wyman's riding
down and putting Tiger
in the Deane's Barn.
Talked with the Horsfords
most of the evening.
Got home at about 11.30
P.M.
Saw the first Scolecophagi
Ferruginei five in number &
one Paserella Iliaca.