Pipilo erythopthalmus [Pipilo erythrophthalmus], Mimus Car. [Mimus Carolinensis], Dend. virens [Dendroica virens],
Sitta Canadensis
1875. May 6 - 1875 Middlesex Co., Mass. [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
May 6 [May 6, 1875] discover neither the birds nor their
nest. Brown thrushes were singing
everywhere. Saw the first snake of
the season, a Coluber sirtalis. Bufo am. [Bufo americanus]
commenced singing the night of May
3rd. While driving through the further 
end of Prospect St. on my way
home saw a bevy of quail skulking
through the bushes which fringed the
road, and pulling up the horse when
nearly abreast of them, had the pleasure
of counting ten of the beauties, as
they filed past within literally
reach of my whip: seven out of
the ten were hens and the prospect
of a goodly hatch in that district
is most favorable. Saw a patch
of snow and ice today, [delete]as w[/delete]
several feet square: it was among
some very thick cedars. Saw a [female] Sitta Can. [Sitta canadensis] in our garden last evening.
  May 7 [May 7, 1875] Rained hard all last night & this 
forenoon clearing off bright at
about 11. After dinner started up
into the swamps and passed
the whole of the afternoon wading
about in them. Took 9 birds, a
bittern, a fine pair of soras & a
Virginia rail, a redwing [male], and
4 Mel. palustris [Melospiza palustris]. Visited my owls
nest and found that the birds
had deserted the hole though they
had apparently been there since
I robbed it, as two fresh pellets,