1891
May 13
Mass.
West Tisbury to Boston. - Cold with strong N. wind. Early
morning cloudy clearing about 9 A.M.
  I was called home to-day by a telegram announcing 
the sudden death of a relative and Faxon came
with me.  We left W. Tisbury by stage at 6.15
and reached Boston at 1 P.M.  On the way to
Vineyard Haven we saw very few birds and
absolutely nothing worth recording except a
Sharp-shinned Hawk beating some oak scrub.
The Vineyard Sound proved still more barren
not a water bird of any kind being seen until we
entered [?]'s Bay when White-winged Scotus
began rising ahead o the steam, singly, in
pairs, and occasionally in small flocks. They
continued all the way to New Bedford harbor
some fifty or more being noted in all. There
were also a very few Black Scotus but no
[?] and not a single Gull of any kind.
  On reaching Cambridge I found that the
great flight of migrants which started on the
9th and flooded the country on the 10th had
not wholly passed for I heard two Parulas
singing, one of them in my garden. I also
started a Lincoln's Finch from the cluster of
lilacs behind my house near where the old
barn stood. The bird was badly frightened by
finding itself between me and a carriage which
was passing through the [?] at the time
and often alighting for a moment in a in a bush
took a long flight & disappeared in Mr. Spelman's 
shrubbery.
[margin]Migrations at Cambridge[/margin]
[margin]M. Lincoln's[/margin]