West Barnstable, Mass. [West Barnstable, Massachusetts]
1874. Nov. 4th 1874 [November 4, 1874]
Nov. 4 With Messrs. Melvin Carter & Buttrick
I took the 4 P.M. train on the O.C.R.R. [Old Colony Railroad]
yesterday P.M. and arrived at Capt.
Baxter's at about 8, where we were
warmly welcomed by the old gentleman
and his pleasant family. I took down
my setter "Shot", Jim M. [James C. Melvin] his
two pointers "Diogenes" and "Prince",
and Charlie C. his pointer "Captain".
Buttrick took no dog. Rose this morning
at daybreak to find the sky cloudless
and the earth covered so thickly with
hoar frost that the country looked as if
covered with a light fall of snow.
We all started off immediately for a 
trip before breakfast, Charlie & I striking
inland and Jim M. with Buttrick taking
the river. They came in with 2 quail &
a teal (N. Carolinensis [Nettion carolinensis]) but we saw nothing
but 2 grouse one of which I shot at.
After breakfast all five started off together
taking the old Osterville route. At
"the shop" we struck a bevy of about 15 birds
and as they, rose shot down 5 of them,
and I killed 2 more in the bush. Our
next find was at "the graveyard" where
I got up a bevy of about 25 large birds,
and we bagged 6 of them altogether. On
the way home I found a bevy of 3
birds none of which were killed and
struck the bevy at the shop again where
we killed 2. Total bag W.B. [William Brewster] quail 7,
Melvin quail Carter Buttrick
Total Quail 17, Grouse 1, Teal 1