Spiz. pusilla [Spizella pusilla], Regulus calen. [Regulus calendula] Dend pina
Middlesex Co., Mass. [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
1875.
Sunday
Apr. 11 [April 11, 1875]  Clear and warm. Ther. [thermometer] 60 [degrees] at noon. After
breakfast walking out in the garden was
much surprised to hear a [male] Spiz. pusilla [Spizella pusilla]
trilling his beautiful wild notes from our
brush pile. Heard also the first full song
of the purple finch. In P.M. drove up
to see Mr. Maynard and saw another
S. pusilla [Spizella pusilla] at his place. He saw Dend.
pina (a [male] singing) this P.M. and heard
a [male] Regulus calendula on the 4th inst. [April 4, 1875]
A single Mel. palustris [Melospiza palustris] was shot by J. Warren
at West Newston on the.
April 12 [April 12, 1875] Cloudy with chill E. [east] wind. Off after
dinner striking up through the
swamps. In the "Brickyard meadow"
started a snipe which "Shot" pointed
handsomely, and killed him
at the second shot. It was the same
bird that we left there Sat. [Saturday] and
the little corner where he lay was
all marked up with his workings.
Continuing on up to the Pine swamp
found there a very large flock
of rusties [rusty blackbird] and shot one, a [male]. At the 
report of the gun two herons (N. Gardenii) [Nyctiardea gardeni]
started from the pines. I afterwards 
put out three more but they were
very shy and I did not get a
shot: their devotion to this
old haunt is most remarkable. Here
I also shot a fine [male] Dend. palmarum [Dendroica palmarum]
and a pair of Sialia sialis: of these
latter I killed the [female] first, when her