1893  
June 1                                                                                                                  
Cambridge, Mass.
  I find the following birds established and singing                                                                
in, or within hearing of, the old place.
[margin]List of birds
breeding in
or near 
our garden[/margin]
1.  Merula migratoria.  Two pairs, one with young flying about
                                  & running on the lawn to-day.

2.  Dendroica aestiva.  Two males singing in the garden.

3. Setophaga  ruticilla.  Two males singing, one in the lindens,
                                      the other in Hubbard Park.

4. Vireo olivaceus.  One male singing in the lindens.

5. Vireo gilvus.  One male singing, on Sparks Street, usually.

6. Vireo flavifrons.  A male singing on Brattle St. below Craigie St.

7.  Icterus galbula.  Certainly one pair, probably two.

8.  Empidonax minimus.  A male, in the jungle usually.

9.  Coccyzus americanus.  A bird constantly in the garden
                                           singing. I think he has a nest on the place.

10.  Passer domesticus. About in the usual numbers.
  I  have seen no Chipping Sparrows to-day and no Grosbeaks
this spring. This is the first season for ten years or more
when the latter have not bred in or near the garden. Faxon
tells me that he hears them on Oxford Street.
Crow Blackbirds & Crows fly over the garden nearly every
day. There was a Purple Finch here two weeks ago.