1891
May 19
A day on the Revere Marshes with Faxon.
Mass.
Revere Beach. - Clear and warm. A soft W.W. wind through
the forenoon, a refreshingly cool but not chilly E. wind
fresh from the sea in the afternoon.
  With Faxon I took the 9.15 A.M. train for
the Revered Marshes leaving the railroad at Saugus
and walking across country to Oak Island.
Near the station at Saugus we heard a Water Thrush
singing in a thicket on the top of a rocky knoll.
There were otters & common birds on all sides of us.
but we soon left them behind and struck out
over the great marshes which stretched away
into the dim distance like an immense lawn.
[margin]Water Thrush[/margin]
An occasional Savanna Sparrow was the only 
songster that broke the silence here but there
were a few Swallows skimming about and
twittering, Crows coming in the distance, and
now and then a Greater Yellow whistling. Of the
latter birds we saw in all at least four or five
and perhaps more. We also saw a Least Sandpiper
and a Tit-lark.
[margin]Savanna Sp.[/margin]
[margin]Swallows Crows Yellow legs[?][/margin]
[margin]Least Sandp. Titlark[/margin]
  No Sharp-tails were met with in this meadow
nor did we have any better success along the
creeks near Oak Island. In fact it was
evident that the bird for which we had especially
come, viz. A. subvirgatus, was not present. Probably
we were a few days too early.
[margin]Absence of Ammodramus subvirgatus[/margin]
  Of the common Sharp-tail (A. caudacutus) we
found a few, however, [delelted]in[/deleted] the little marsh
between Oak Island and the narrow guage[?] R.R.
[margin]A. Caudacutus[/margin]
They were not about the pools where they
bred last season but along the banks of the