Turdus migratorius. 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
1873. 
Oei. 17. 
Shot a Robin in the first speckled plumage inter- 
Ij rjiixoa v/ith patches of fall plumage. It vras thin in 
flesh and on dissecting it I found a largo yellow cancer 
as largo as a walnut attahfed to the ribs on the right 
side as well as to the liver, and crowded in among the 
intestines; the stomach contained the usual quantity 
of food. The bird v/as extremely tamo. 
1874. 
Mar. 20, 
May 15. 
Robins sv^ddonly app^^ared to-day in largo numbers 
e Voi ywiore. I savr at least thirty single birds hooping 
about on Gho ground, or callirrg from the tree tons in 
tnat soft undertone peculiar to early spring. bne at 
middaj. was in full song, sometiiing that I have never 
known happen before for at least a week after their 
gor^^^al arrival, Az sunset I saw a flock of about 
■: oi-ty passing high in air tovmrds the north. 
^ A partially, albino Robin by the roadside in V/ater- 
l| I sa.,- him in the same place yesterday and last 
II year a bird similarly marked and probablv the same indi- 
'I viQual. 
« O ti 
28. 
Juno §0. 
Sept .2t-;. 
Dec. 16. 
albino noted a few days since in Watert.-vn 
Upon aisseetin« bim fniii'r' ^ . ■ 
4 - _o - . i oui.u tiic.b JUS si.ernum was crushed 
-- 40 one sine by some i.r^^vious injury, giving his 
;poay a deformed appearance, alihough he was in good flesl 
-and otnervrise apparently lioalthy. 
The young have been flying about a week. 
Unusually abundant this season. Swarms of them 
pass overhead at sunset heading for their roos .s in wie 
swamps. '■ ' 
A Single bird in Wa^iertovm, another doubtless the 
, same liadividual was seen in the same place on the 10th. 
!i 
ne in Wa^ortown, doubtless the same seen yesterday 
J cili, ki ■’ 3, 
Saw largo rirmbora in West, govrton, all Tor- ahv and 
silenr asd floot or at loast thirty was flying” in a clos, 
bony bhrough the v/oods. 
^ a dozen among the cedars in Water- 
bown. As I have seen only a single bird there before 
his, these are probably fresh arrivals driven from some 
otiior secure retreat by lack of food. 
