C CORD. 
1902 
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Birds 
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Phpefre . 
31 uehiprds , 
Robins 
Mos rail t os 
filing 
in March! 
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ibrly season 
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Rluebirde and Song Sparrows began singing soon after 
daybreak; Robins not until sunrise;.' Flickers and a Phoebe 
still It ter. The Bluebirds » rble.d almost continuously all 
day long* I do not think that I h.-ore ever before had, such a 
positive surfeit of their music — if anything so delightful 
or. i be so-called. They are at their very best now. 1 week 
or two 1- ter they will not sing so often nor with such spirit 
and fervor. There were two males near the house all the fore¬ 
noon, one of them accompanied by a female who inspected all 
the holes and bird houses, flying to the entrance of each 
and looking in, but not entering any of them. 
The Robins were silent through the d y but one song 
for nearly half-an-hour at evening in the top of an els 
nearly over the house. He had a strong, pure and very 
perfectly modulated voice. 
The season is wonderfully forward — I might perhaps 
say, without gross exaggeration, unpreeedently so. Certainly 
1 cannot recall a year when at this date ever thing was so 
far advanced. Mosquitos were numerous and actually trouble¬ 
some la the woods this aftorno- n — something unheard of, 
if I an not mistakes.: In ray recollection. One of them bit me 
tihcrply and r dozen or -ore tried to do so. All that I caught 
and examined were of the malarial kind (Anopheles) with 
spotted wings. There are any in the upper rooms of the 
farm-house and the cellar is sv/arraing with them. All, of 
course, oust have lived through the winter. 
