Concord Mass. [Concord, Massachusetts]
1874. Sept. 24 - 1874 [September 24, 1874]
about a thick white pine from
which the sounds proceeded & when
within about 100 yds an immense
owl, the largest I think that I 
ever saw, started from the tree
and flew around me through
the woods, striking the branches
at intervals with its wings and
producing so loud a noise that I 
heard it long after the bird had
passed out of sight, What the species 
was I cannot imagine: it looked
larger than the biggest eagle.
Reached the town by 6 P.M. & spent
the evening talking with Jim. Dan C.
F. [Daniel Chester French] also dropped in for a half hour or so.
  Sept. 24 Clear and not quite so warm as yesterday.
Started off immediately after breakfast
on foot striking East. Struck first
into "Halls" where we put up 7 cock
and bagged three of them with a single
grouse which I shot off a birch limb.
Next beat "the causeway run" I
bagging another grouse in very 
thick cover. Then crossed over to
the school house piece where we
put up a covy of a dozen grouse
& one cock bagging the latter.
Last of all we beat "Dam meadow"
putting up three cock one of which
I killed. Total W. B. [William Brewster] 3 cock & 2 grouse
J.C.M. [James C. Melvin] 2 cock. Reached the town
by 7 P.M. pretty well fagged out.