1893 
June 12                                                                                               
Say brook, Conn.
Clear and warm.
  Spent the morning in the house. In the afternoon
Faxon & I walked across the fields and called on Mr. Clark
who showed us his collection of eggs. He keeps only one set of
each species and has exchanged most of his best things.
Still the collection is interesting & of some value. One of
the gems is his set of nine eggs of Porzana jamaicensis
taken on the Lyme marshes. He has also one egg of the
King Rail which he found on these marshes many years
ago. There were nine or ten in a nest but they were addled
& broken & he could save only one. A Pigeon's egg which
he took at Ingham Hill in 1863 is another rarity.
[margin]Mr. Clark's
collection of
eggs.[/margin]
  We found at the house a young man by the name
of Watsons who lives at Chester abour ten miles north 
of Say brook on the river. He finds all the Say brook birds
& in addition Worm-eating Warblers of whose nest he
has taken five this season. The Hooded Warbler is abundant
at Chester nesting, as a rule, in beech woods [delete]as a rule[/delete] these
being practically no Kalmin's. The Water Finches & 
Blue winged Yellow Warbler are both common. The Morning
Warbler is abundant during the spring migration. Both
of the larger Buteos (borealis & lineatus) nest commonly
and two sets of the eggs of B. pennsylvanicus have 
have been taken.
[margin]Birds at
Chester, Conn.[/margin]