1891.
May 28
Mass.
Cambridge to Carlisle. - Clear & warm with S.W. to S.E. 
winds.
  At 9 A.M. I started to drive to Carlisle taking
George to hold the horse and my pointer "Don"
to help me look for Snipe nests for the chief
object of the trip was to investigate the birds
heard drumming on Rock Meadow, May 17, and
the pair seen on Fifty Acre Meadow, Carlisle,
by Mr. Robbins early in May. In this I was
wholly unsuccessful for although I beat both
places with the utmost care I found neither
the Snipe nor any traces of their presence. It
seems difficult to believe that the Rock Meadow
drummer was a migrant but the pair seen
in Carlisle were very probably migrants for 
Mr. Robbins is not even sure that the date
was as late as May 1. As nearly as he can
remember it was about five weeks ago.  He
showed me the exact spot where he started
them. It is a tract of brook meadow covered
with short, wiry grass and at all seasons,
except during freshets, is well drained by the
brook although the ground is unusually moist.
He also showed me the place (about 20 yds.
distant) where [?] killed his young Snipe
on July 4 two successive seasons. It is a
strip of bare mud between a stiff hedge of
tall willows and a mill-pond.
  The route which I traversed during my drive
was past Fresh Pond to Belmont, thence through
Prospect Street to the Willows, and on to Concord