1891
May 29
Afternoon in the Fresh Pond Swamps.
Mass.
Cambridge. - Cloudy and cool with light N.E. wind.
A steady rain through the forenoon; afternoon
dark and threatening with drizzling rain at
intervals and nearly incessant mist.
  To the swamps alone at 3 P.M. driving to 
Alewife Brook and sending the coupe' back. My
chief object was to make the rounds of the four
Rails' nests which Jeffries and I found and
left on the 21st the sets being at that time 
incomplete.
  The Carolina's nest which I found in the little
meadow by the brick ice-houses had eleven eggs
to-day which I took with the nest getting 
the latter in very perfect condition with its 
canopy of entwined grasses nearly uninjured.
This nest had six eggs on the 21st.
  The other Carolina's nest found by Jeffries with 
three eggs also held eleven to-day. I took the eggs
for Jeffries but left the nest.
  Jeffries' Virginia's nest which contained three
eggs on the 21st yielded eight to-day. I did
not remove the nest.
  The total yield of our labors on the 21st
is, therefore, including the set of ten Virginia's eggs
taken by Jeffries on that date just fifty Rails'
eggs twenty eight Virginia's and twenty two Carolina's.
This does not inclued a set of ten badly incubated