Concord, Mass.
1909
March 25
(No 2)
  Henry P. Richardson brought me the dried corpse
of a House Sparrow impaled on a twig of an apple tree
fully 1/4 inch in thickness which is driven down behind the
sternum, between the forks of the wish bone. He found 
it last winter in an alder swamp near Strawberry Hill,
Concord. Without doubt it must have been killed
and transfixded by a Shrike. I have never before known
a Shrike to make use of so stout a skewer, however.
Sparrow impaled by Shrike
  H. P. Richardson tells me has never seen a living
Otter, nor the tracks of one, in Concord but that in
the early 70's he examined a freshly killed one that
Sam Haines (or "Quadruped Haines", as he was
facetiously called because he was crippled & used his
hands in crawling about) took in the Sudbury River
somewhere not far below Heath's Bridge. Haines
was in his boat (He was an inveterate fisherman
Otter killed in Sudbury River "about 1875"