P. M. - To Annursnack.
The black currant will not bloom for five or six days. A large red maple just begun to leaf - its keys an inch and a half long - by Assabet Bridge. Castilleja show red, - one, - but will not bloom under a week probably. The same of erigeron. Cornus alternifolia and paniculata begin to leaf. Scared up three quails in the stubble in G. M. Barrett’s orchard. They go off partridge-like from within two rods, with a sharp, whistling whir. Heard, methinks, a white-throated sparrow (?) sing very much like the beginning of a catbird’s song. Could see no other bird. Thought it a catbird at first. See several of these sparrows yet.
