1891
April 2
(no 3)
Mass. 
Ipswich - White-bellied Swallow, the first I have seen,
  appeared for a moment over the crest of a neighboring
  sand hill.
[margin]Swallow[/margin]
    We next climbed the great grassy hill to the
  south finding it much changed since our last
  visit.  A broad driveway had been built entirely
  around it and pitch pines, maples and willows
  have been planted profusely and with excellent
  taste in groves and clusters scattered irregularly 
  over the sides of the hill and in the hollows.
    We went far into the great sand-hills south
  of this hill passing the light house and
  eating lunch in a sheltered hollow within a
  few hundred yards of Woodbury's. Song and
  Tree Sparrows were singing in bushy places.
  There were some extension thickets of native willows
  and wild rose bushes and scattered pitch pines
  and cedars near our halting places, while to
  one side lay an irregular fresh-water pond of
  considerable size.
    After lunch we turned back following the
  beach ridge and beating all the beach grass
  for Ipswich Sparrows.  None of these were seen
  either here or elsewhere but near the light house
  I started a fourth Shrike- [?faced] Owl from
  a knoll covered with beach grass and brought
  him down before he had gone far. He
  proved an unusually beautiful specimen, very
  white beneath.
    During the return walk we saw a good manu
  Ducks flying about over the sea off the