1893
June 5
(No 3)
Saybrook, Connecticut.
over sixty, sturdy & vigorous with a pleasant
yet strong face. He showed us a case of birds
in the parlor containing about fifty specimens,
among them a Little Auk in full breeding plumage,
taken at Montauk Point in July, a Carolina Wren
killed in Songbrook, a Buff-breasted Sandpiper from
the mouth of the Connecticut, a Loggerhead Shrike
taken here & various other interesting things.
He has, also, an egg of the King Rail, [delete]which[/delete] one of
a deserted, addled & worthless set which he found in the
Lyme marches upwards of forty years ago.