Middlesex Co., Mass. [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
1874.
down in an open huckleberry pasture
but the old hen which Shot found & 
pointed was the only bird that we
could find with our two dogs though
I am confident that we must have
passed many times within a few
yards of some of them. We started
about 15 grouse in all the greatest
number seen this year at Concord.
Shot behaved very poorly making
multitudes of false points and running
over most of his birds. The first woodcock
that I started I lost most exasperatingly 
by snapping both barrels of my empty gun
having forgotten to put in the shells
but I afterwards found & killed him.
Anthus Ludovicianus was all over 
the great meadow in flocks & singly.
  Oct. 24 [October 24, 1874] Clear and cool with E. [east] wind. In P.M.
drove Barstow up to Belmont and sat
in the buggy, while he hunted old 
Dart not wishing to walk myself
as I sprained one of my hips slightly
yesterday. He flushed three grouse &
a heron (Ardea herodias) but did
not get any of them. Saw a fine
[male] Picus villosus near the road & B. [Barstow]
afterwards coming up shot it for 
me.
Oct. 26 [October 26, 1874] Clear warm and still. Started off after
breakfast with C. Carter and tied on