1878 Cambridge
Nov. 14 (Thursday) It is
many a day since I have
had aught to record in this
little book. Since our return
from Concord we have been
very busy getting into our new
house in the brick block on
Sparks St. This morning
was however so wonderfully
fine and tempting that
I took my gun out of its
case once more and putting a
few shells into my pockets
started off with Will Stone in
my open buggy. We stopped
first at the strip of yellow
pines beyond the brook on
the Coolidge farm in Water-
town and I went thro' [through] there
carefully. Among the young
growth on the edges were large
numbers of Fox Sparrows
and I was surprised to hear
the males singing finely at
intervals, tho'[though] in an undertone.
Among them were a few Zon. [Zonotrichia] 
albicollis. I shot here a fine
pair of adult Dend. [Dendroica] pinus in
full plumage. Will saw a 
Winter Wren which came out
near the road as he sat in the
buggy. From here we drove
up to Belmont and thence
up the hill to Arlington Heights.
  While I was hunting about in 
the cedars W. heard a Quail
whistle and upon my return I
took "Druid" & beat for the [?]
but in vain tho'[though] I found where
they had been dusting. We then
drove on over "The Heights" to Wellington
lane where I examined an Owl
hole but found it vacant.
Upon our return I shot a [male]
Molothrus pecoris, one of a pair
that rose from a corn field. Aeg. [Agelaius]
linaria was abundant everywhere.