1878 Nantucket
Aug. [August] 21 (Wednesday). Clear cool
and a superb day. Drove over
to the bathing beach in the
morning and had a delightful
swim. In the afternoon made
up skins of five of the Least
Terns shot yesterday. The Upland
Plover I picked and had for
dinner as its bill was so badly
shattered that it was worthless
as a specimen. In its stomach
were remains of grasshoppers
and crickets. It was exceedingly
fat. After supper took a 
drive about town and
had a long talk with Mr. 
Sweet. He showed me an adult
Charadrius virginicus
which was shot to-day from
a flock of about twenty. It 
is the first specimen that
has been killed here this
season.
1878  Return from Nantucket
Aug. [August] 22 (Thursday) Rose early and
took the 7.15 boat from the
island. Crossing the Sound we saw
a good many Terns
especially about the "Cross rips"[.]
  Arrived at Boston at 1.45 P.M.
and went directly out to 
Cambridge. Found everything
nearly as when here last. The
Least Flycatchers were gone
entirely apparently at least
from the linden trees. There
were a few Yellow Warblers
lingering about the place[.]
Saw the last of them on Sat. [Saturday]
Aug[ust] 24th. They may however
have lingered a few days
later. Contracted a severe cold
the last night at Nantucket
and after [delete]our[/delete] return to
Cambridge I was sick nearly a week with it.