29 April 1861 – 5 May 1861

Water in our neighbors’ cellars quite gener- ally. May it not be partly owing to the fact that the ground was not frozen the last winter to any depth, and so the melted snow as well as rain has been chiefly absorbed by it? ?

H. Mann brings me two small pewees, but not yellowish about eye and bill, and bill is all black. Also a white-throat sparrow, Wilson’s thrush, and myrile- bird.

Hear the seringo note.’ book.]