1891
May 19
(No 5)
Mass.
A day on the Revere Marshes with W. Faxon.
Revere Beach. - a cannon ball raising a perfect
cloud of frightened Peeps through the midst of 
which it passed without making any decided
attempt to secure a victim, although it inclined
its flight towards several as if tempted by the easy
chances which they offered. It seemed to be, and
possibly really was, bewildered by the very abundance
of opportunities and was also doubtless a good deal
startled by our presence for it came within a few
yard*[yards] of us before noticing us and then with a 
sudden upward bound and half wheel turned back
and skimmed off close over the marsh giving us 
a good view of its slaty back and barred tail.
Finally rising high in [the] air it quickly disappeared
towards the north flying very fast and steadily.
Among the soft, whistling peep calls common to
both of our small Sandpipers and given by dozens
of birds at once on this occasion we several times
heard the unmistakeable musical chatter or
whining (ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha) of
Erennetes pusillus. We accordingly went to work
with our glasses and scrutinised every bird that
we could catch on the ground near enough
to be identified in this way. The result
convinced us that there were only a very few
Erennetes here to-day. As a matter of fact we
determined positively only one among upwards of
a hundred Least Sandpipers which were [delete][?][/delete]
satisfactorily identified.
[margin]Duck Hawk
Semipalmated
Sandpipers[/margin]
  There were a good many Savanna Sparrows in this
marsh and we heard our Greater Yellow-legs.
The 4 P.M. train took us back to Boston.
[margin]Savanna Sp.[/margin]