Cambridge, Mass.
1899.
February.
(No. 4).
  Of dead birds since the snow I have seen three, 1 Song
Sparrow, 1 White-throated Sparrow & 1 Robin. The thaw followed
the snow so rapidly that I do not think much injury to birds
resulted. x x x x x Robins were common during and after the
snow; during the first three or four days after the snow I
heard Shore Larks frequently".
  Reports from outlying districts near Cambridge have been
meagre this month. The deep snows have deterred even the
most active of the younger men from attempting to look much
after birds. Reginald Heber Howe saw a Robin, a Horned Lark
and a small flock of Snow Buntings in Arlington on the 15th.
The Robin is the only one that has been reported and but one
Cedar Bird has been seen. O.A. Lothrop has found only a soli-
tary Shrike and a few Tree Sparrows in the Fresh Pond Swamps.
Walter Faxon has not been out since the great storm.
  My only field excursion was on the 3rd, when I went to
Concord with Gilbert. We got off the cars at the West Bed-
ford station and crossed the river on the ice to Ball's Hill
where we dined at the cabin. While there we saw two Chicka-
dees and a male Downy came repeatedly to a small piece of suet
which Pat had hung up in an oak in front of the door. These
were actually the only birds met with on my land although I
walked up river to Holden's Hill and down to the north end of
Davis's Hill. Near the West Bedford station I saw a solitary
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