- 1875 -
Mass. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts] 
1875. Jan 18- 1875 [January 18, 1875]
Jan. 19 Cloudy and very cold. Ther. [Thermometer] at sunrise 4 [degrees].
Rose at 6 and getting a slight breakfast
set off for a collecting tramp. Walked up
to "the farm" and came back on the car
reaching the house by 10 A.M. Shot 11 birds
the best Pinicola enucleator 1 adlt [adult male] - 1 [female] Chry.
pinus [Chrysomitris pinus] 1, C. tristis [Chrysomitris tristis] 5, Aeg. linaria [Aegolius linaria] 2, Reg.
satrapa [Regulus satrapa] 1. The two Pinicolas [Pinicola enucleator] were the
only ones seen. In the cedar grove found
numerous traces of owls and one feather
from the abdomen of N. Acadica [Nyctale acadica], and
near the brook I came upon a little
heap of feathers where some bird of
prey had devoured a Plec. nivalis [Plectrophenax nivalis]: absolutely
nothing but the feathers remained but in
a "pellet" lying a foot or two away I identified
the whole bill of a Pinicola enucleator.
Such large birds would be hardly likely
I should suppose to fall a prey to
the owl above named by the spots
of excrement lying on the snow around
were of so small a size as to suggest
a bird of about that size as the
murderer. Saw also a single Carpod.
purpureus [Carpodacus purpureus], and three Colaptes auratus.
I shot all of the linnets (3 species & 8 individuals)
at one shot, as they were feeding on some
tall weeds which overtopped the snow.
I saw Chry. pinus [Chrysomitris pinus] in several places but
they all I think make the cedar ridge
their rendevous [rendezvous]. Heard a [male] Aeg. [Aegiothus linaria] sing. 
Noticed a Certhia familiaris eating large
quantities of snow from patches which
had frozen on to the bark of a linden tree.
The ther [thermometer] has fallen to 0 every night for 10 days
past.