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A fine-grained air, June-like, after a cloudy rain threatening or rainy morning. Sufficient [sic] with a still, clear air in which the hum of insects is heard, and the sunniness contrasts with the shadows of the freshly expanded foliage, lilac the glances of an eye from under the dark eyelashes of June. The grass is not yet dry. The birds sing more lively than ever now after the rain, though it is only 2 P.M. . . .

  Farmer [Jacob Farmer] describes an animal which he saw lately near Bateman’s Pond, which he thought would weigh fifty or sixty pounds, color of a she fox at this season, low but very long, and ran some what like a woodchuck . . .

  We proceeded [to] the Cooper’s hawk nest in an oak and pine wood (Clark’s) north of Ponkawtasset . . . I climbed to the nest, some thirty to thirty-five feet high in a white pine, against the main stem. It was a mass of bark-fibre and sticks about two and a half feet long by eighteen inches wide and sixteen high . . .

  C. [William Ellery Channing] has seen to-day an orange-breasted bird which may be the female (?) Blackburnian warbler . . .

  Minnesota (the St. Peter’s River) is water-skyey or muddy—(or the color that it is) . . .

  The tridecimlineatus dirty grayish white beneath, above dirty brown with 6 dirty tawny or clay-colored or very light brown line alternating with broad (3 times as broad) dark brown lines, stripes, the last having an interrupted line or square spots of the same color with the first mentioned running down their middle, reminding me of the rude pattern of some Indian work—porcupine quills, baskets (gopher) & pottery.