Turdus migratorius - Flock of 50 Sialia sialis
- Molothrus pecoris - one Brookline - J. Murdock
MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
Peresoreus Canadensis [Perisoreus canadensis] from Me. [Maine] - dissection etc.
1876. - March 18 - 1876 - [March 18, 1876] 
March 18 Clear & cold with high wind. About three inches
of snow fell yesterday and the general aspect
of affairs this morning is as winterish as
possible. Took the horse car for Watertown
in the morning and tramped over my 
usual route. Saw nothing of much
interest. Robins were collected together in
the woods near the Arsenal in extraordinary
numbers but seemed to be the regular
winter birds; they have not attacked the
asparagus berries at all as yet. Some of
the males sang very finely, indeed one
or two that I heard poured out their notes
with the fredom [freedom] of May rather than March
but still I think that all these birds
belong farther N. [North] and that our local
birds have yet to put in their appearance.
A few blue birds were seen this morning
and Mr. W.W. Patten whom I met out
collecting [delete]informs[/delete] told me that he saw
on the 17th inst. [March 17, 1876] a flock of at least 50
individuals collected together and feeding
on cedar berries. Crows were very abundant
and noisy this morning. Song
sparrows were about the only birds that
I heard singing. No cedar birds have
appeared yet though many are anxiously
watching for their arrival. Recd. [Received] two
Peresoreus Canadensis & a [female] Picoides Arcticus
from Mr. Mc.Leod. One of the jays was
a [male] with testes perhaps 1/2 developed: the sex
of the other I found impossible to ascertain
though the parts were neither mangled nor
bloody. This development is not what I had
expected in birds reported to breed so early.
A single Molothrus pecoris shot in Brookline by J. Murdock.