A lull in 
The weather has been cold for the past four days and 
misxetion 
I do not think that many of the birds which were here on 
the 1st have departed or that many fresh arrivals have come 
up from the South. There are a few Juncos about but I have 
not seen more than a dozen during any one day, thus far. 
Robins, Flickers, Red-wings and Rusties are present in about 
the usual numbers. 
Shortly after eight o’clock this morning 4 Black 
Ducks passed over Ball’s Hill at a moderate elevation, 
heading northward and I think on migration. 
I heard the Ball’s Hill Partridge drumming to-day 
for the first time this season and in the usual place on the 
stone wall near the big maple.\ 
Wood Frogs have nearly ceased croaking; Hylas were 
peeping by hundreds this wvening; the Leopard Frogs have 
apparently not fair'll®' begun as yet for I heard only two to-day. 
Batrachians 
