Friday, May 1, 1868.
  Alternately cloudy
and clear. Ther. about
44[degrees] - 40[degrees] - 38[degrees].
Rose as usual and
exercised the dogs.
Got out of school as
usual at 12 N. After
lunch Bill took me
up to the Belmont
meadows. Started a
Snipe & fired at him
twice. Then crawled on
hands & knees up to a Field
Plover & shot him with No 2
at long range. Then shot a
Musk Rat which Billy fetched
out. Then saw a Blk & White
Creeper & a Sp. Sandp. Got back
at 5.30 P.M. Shot a male
Kingfisher. R. Deane 
saw & Least Pewee.
In evening stuffed the
Plover. Saw a Snow Bird
& a Rusty.
Saturday, May 2, 1868.
  Cloudy all day. Began
to rain at 7 A.M. & rained
hard all day. Cleared
up at sunset. Ther. about
42[degrees] - 50[degrees] -  Rose at
4 A.M. Went into the
Snipe Swamp with Jack.
Shot three Virginia Rails,
one flying. Saw a Bobolink
in the Swamp & heard
a Gl. Warbler. Shot also,
as far as I could tell, a Snipe
Heard several strange
birds in the swamp.
Saw both Yl. Red Poll & Yl.
Cr. Warblers. Got back at
4 A.M. & found R. Deane
here. I spent most of A.M.
in stuffing the Kingfisher
& Rails. In P.M. made
fifteen stands. After supper
took a ride up by 'the pond'
& met R. Deane who had
shot a male Wood Duck.
Saw two Musk Rats.