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1 1868. 
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Turdus migratorius. 
Middlosex County, I’ass . 
Sopt.27. 
Diminishing in numbers but still numorous. Every 
evening they pass over our place to the roost in the 
maple swamp, flying in large scattered flocks, and, as 
they approach the swamp, diving down with partly closed 
\/irigs and darting through the bushes on its outskirts, 
alighting in the thickest foliage of the maples. Here 
they remain till dawn, when they return to the cields 
and gardens. 
Oct. 31^ 
A flock of several hundred in Lexington, keeping 
together in a close body and. flying in a mass like ^lack- 
birds . 
^3c. 26- 
Thirty in ’'s'atertovm, nearly silent. 
1869. 
Feb. 24. 
“ 27. 
One. 
Two. 
Mar. 8. 
A dozen. 
" 22. 
Several. 
“ 25 - 
An adult male sitting on ai- oak began to sing in an 
undertone just as the sun was setting, then burst out in 
full song making the v/oods ring with his music finally 
ceasing suddenly and plunging headlong into the shrubory 
beneath. ^ 
Way. 2. 
Are just beginning to lay. 
Ocu. 2(J. 
Several immense flocks just from h'o north. 
’“’'ov. 10. 
Several flocks. 
Dee. 3. 
One. 
“ IS. 
One. 
1870. 
Fed. 20. 
One. 
Mar. 18. 
Two . 
22. 
A large Iock passing northv/ard. 
“ 23. 
PaSSinU riOT- t, liv/n __ 
.^ ctxx uay in small compact flocks. 
In large flocks about che asnara.ans 
CO 
crrnvoc, oTi . , aeus and cedar 
uiov>^s, all probably bound further north. 
or o-rhfnk'tH through ,ho fi.3lds and .,,ror.ard 
r p.,rhapo tn.sa a e our summer birds just arrived. 
