CO--CORD 
The weather, although not oppressive, was warmer 
than it has been for several days, and the birds seemed to 
feel the change, AS: least they sang less often and -with 
I heard only the usual species. Only two 
Wilson's Thrushes and one Robin were singing at evening 
{i.a only this nturtber of individuals of ep(Ch species)* I 
heard two Oven-birds, one of which sang on wing. At 
about 9 A, M. five Black Ducks dropped into the marsh 
nearly op )08lte the cabin and almost exactly where the 
flock of six alighted yesterday* No doubt it was the same 
flock but vjhat has become of the sixth bird? 
At evening the brood of young Screech Owls again 
appeared close about the cabins* ^ 
Herbert Holden, whom I saw this moral !g, tells me 
that a Long-billed Harsh Wren has a nest nearly completed 
■on the river bank at the Holt, He also says that a Ring- 
neoked Pheasant has been seen twice lately in '|est Acton, 
During the past week the Bull Frogs have made 
the marshes resound every night with their heavy, sonorous 
boss voices. The Green Frogs have also tpn/ced ceaselessly 
and the tiresome, irritating sumner squawk of the Garden 
Toads has been at tines almost unbearable. It is perhaps 
the only natural sound of our country’ meadows that is posi¬ 
tively discordant as well as out-of-keeping with the sur¬ 
roundings. 
