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sane instant, performing this with admirable ease and 
grace. Once she alighted on a fence post, 
A Sharp-shinned Hawk, a large female, also appeared 
over the house but did not alight, gierely scaling across 
the fields to the grove of pines beyond the North Bridge, 
In the afternoon there was much shooting on the 
meadows over which the Snipe were drumming last evening 
and I fear that some of the poor birds fell victims. It 
is a shame that our laws should allow this spring shooting 
of a bird which is so rapidly decreasing. 
A large flock of Bronzed Grackles visited the farm 
early in the forenoon, coming and going several times and 
descending to the corn stubble to feed, as they used to do 
years ago, on our place in Cambridge. At first there were 
sixteen birds in the flock but afterwards the number 
increased to twenty-seven which probably represents the 
total colony that breed in the pines on the Hoar place 
every season. 
A small yellowish bird which passed me in the 
orchard, flitting along in a jerky manner close to the 
ground, was almost unquestionably a Yellow Palm Warbler, 
but I did not identify it positively. 
Late in the afternoon I walked to Derby* s Lane. 
It was still snowing fast and fully five inches of damp 
show covered the ground, making the walking laborious and 
very slippery. The wind was south-east and of moderate 
strength. 
