The Salix purpurea in prime; began, say, 18th.
A warm day. Now begin to sit without fires more commonly, and to wear but one coat commonly.
Moore tells me that last fall his men, digging sand in that hollow just up the hill, dug up a parcel of snakes half torpid. They were both striped and black together, in a place somewhat porous, he thought where a horse had been buried once. The men killed them, and laid them all in a line on the ground, and they measured several hundred feet. This seems to be the common practice when such collections are found; they are at once killed and stretched out in a line, and the sum of their lengths measured and related.
It is a warm evening, and I hear toads ring distinctly for the first time.
C. see bluets and some kind of thrush to-day, size of wood thrush, - he thought probably hermit thrush.
