Butorides virescens, Progne purpurea
Tringoides macularius
Middlesex Co., Mass. [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
1875
May 8 [May 8, 1875] but Diogenes flushed a woodcock
among a small thicket of birches.
This bird behaved in a very unusual
manner scaling about our heads for
several minutes before flying off: it
probably had either a nest or
young in the vicinity. Reached
town at 2 P.M. and Jim drove
me down to Waltham where I 
took the train. On the road below
Concord a fine Butorides virescens
rose out of a pond hole and
lit in some scrub oaks but was
so shy I was unable to get near 
him. Arrivals were Tringoides
macularius several; Butorides
virescens 1. Progne purpurea, abdnt [abundant]
Empidonax minimus seen at Brookline on 
the 6th, Porzana noveboracensis
and Athene hypogea shot at
Newburyport Mass, on the 4th May (
by Clifford and Joyce) Rallus crepitans
taken on vessel off Boston harbor
May (C.S., Brewster)
  Sunday
May 9 [May 9, 1875] Cloudy with E. [east] wind. Drove up to Maynard's
in P.M. and saw a large company of
Chaetura pelagica, at least 50 in number, circling
about over the river at Watertown.
  May 10 [May 10, 1875] Clear and very warm. Ther (thermometer) 84 [degrees] at noon. Spent
the whole day in the house working over
birds. Percy Aldritch came out to see me