Rana halecina
Middlesex Co., Mass. [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
1875.
April 23. [April 23, 1875] shot him. It was a [male] and the first
that I have ever seen in Mass. [Massachusetts] in
spring. Heard Rana halecina yes-
terday for the first time and today
heard several (identity unquestionable) of
those mysterious insects, frogs or
whatever they are, that fill our 
woods with their cracked voices during
the Autumnal months. I have never
heard them before in spring. Reached
the house by 1.30. Late in the
afternoon took my gun and Shot
and walked up to the pine swamp
intending to lay for night herons
but as I approached the swamp I
saw three already going out although
the sun had but just set and
by the time I got placed to my
satisfaction on the edge of Pout pond
all had departed (some 30 altogether)
They fly to the salt marshes every
evening as in the fall. Sitting among
the bushes on the edge of the little pond
it was most interesting to hear the
varying succession of bird (& other) voices
as day gradually passed into night.
The robins ended up the former period
with a grand chorus, then a brief interval
of comparative silence when in the
still air the [delete]rasping[/delete] incessant rasp of
the wood borers could be distinctly heard
from the farther side, and the next
moment a weird winnowing of
wings commencing directly over
the pond & culminating in almost a