Harporhynchus rufus
MASS. Middlesex Co. [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
1875 May 4th 1875
May 4 [May 4, 1875] Cloudy and chill with E. [east] wind. Off after
breakfast driving up to the Warren run
where I spent most of the forenoon
searching in vain for the 2nd nest
of my woodcock. "Shot" roaded a bevy
of 5 quail for some distance and 
finally found them in a thicket of
birches. On the evening of May 1st I
heard a [male] calling Bob White near
Mr. Maynards in Newtonville. Birds of
all kinds are now fast increasing in
numbers. I heard a [male] Har. rufus [Harporhynchus rufus]
and Zon. albicollis [Zonotrichia albicollis] was abundant everywhere.
Shot a [male] Regulus calendula and saw
and heard several others, as well as
two [male] Mniotilta varia. Juncos, fox
sparrows, & tree sparrows have
entirely disappeared.
  May 6 [May 6, 1875] Cloudy with wind S.E. [southeast] Off after breakfast
driving up on to the hill and tying
my horse in Prospect St. Shot 9 birds,
among them a pair of Regulus calendula.
Arrivals were Pipilo erythrophalmus [Pipilo erythrophthalmus] sev. [several] [males];
Mimus Carolinensis 1 specimen; Dend. virens [Dendroica virens]
a [male] singing. I saw also a house wren
for the first time but one was seen
in Cambridge by R. Deane [Ruthven Deane] May 3rd.
Found an owl's hole in an orchard and
took therefrom numerous feathers of a quail
as well as of robins & smaller birds.
Although there were several other likely
holes in the neighborhood I could