Concord, Mass.
1893.  
Oct. 26.                                                                        
  Clear and cooler. Ther. 36[degrees] at sunrise.
  Drove to Carlisle at 8 A.M. and met Melvin at Mr. Robbins's[.]
We beat Farrar's Hill, Melvin's Run, Woodcock Hole, Parker's Lot
and Wadleigh's Run without starting a single Woodcock. Flushed
5 Partridges, one of which I killed. In the afternoon drove to
the hill top west of Carlisle where we found four Partridges.
I fired twice, one a long shot, the other through dense bush. We
die not get a single bird,[.[ We had three shots, two very fair,
open ones. In another place, a swampy run, we started two more
Partridges but did not not shoot at either.
  On my way home at evening I drove directly beneath a Red-
tailed Hawk that was sitting in an elm over the road. He flew 
when I stopped the horse. A Hairy Woodpecker in a wild apple
tree was the only interesting small bird seen during the day.