CONCORD 
jjl have not heard a Wood Thrush since May 25th 
until to-night when one of the birds in the "Run" sang 
in a half-hearted way for a few minutes as twilight 
was falling. It is unusual, I believe, for the Wood 
Thrush to cease singing so early in the season. 
Strange to say, I have heard only one Veery sing 
this spring. Yet the birds are as common here as usual 
and I hear them calling in the Run near the farm-house 
nearly every morning and evening, 
A Cat-bird that is apparently mating in the big 
forsythia bush in front of the house has been singing 
at all hours and most delightfully for nearly two weeks. 
He mimics the songs of the Wood Thrush, the Bobolink 
and the Least Flycatcher and this morning early he gave 
both the bob-white and the "scatter call" of the Quail. 
His imitations are all good and that of the Wood Thrush 
has repeatedly deceived me for the moment7| 
Early this afternoon, Gilbert called my attention 
to a rather large Milk Adder in an apple-tree in the 
garden. About a foot of the terminal end of the snake 
was wound around a smooth thick part of the trunk of the 
tree, while the remainder of the body was inside the 
trunk, the head showing at one small opening and the tail 
part coming out through another. 
As I looked, the head was drawn back out of sight, while 
the tail part remained motionless. Immediately after 
