Middlesex Co., Mass. [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
1875
May 13 [May 13, 1875] Clear with high cold wind. Rose at 6 A.M.
and had Charles drive me up to the
Waverley hill where I spent the forenoon
collecting and meeting him by appointment
at 1 P.M. drove home. Took 26 birds the
best D. Blackburnian [Dendroica blackburniae] [male], D. caerules. [Dendroica caerulescens] 4 [male].
D. virens [Dendroica virens] 7 [male], Pyranga rubra [Piranga rubra] [male], Hy. Ludovic. [Hydemeles ludoviciana]
2 [male] 1 [female]. Arrivals were Vireo Nov. [Vireo noveboracensis] 1 [male], D. caerules. [Dendroica caerulescens] 
g.a ; P. rubra [Piranga rubra] 1 [male]; Contopus virens 1 well
seen & unmistakable though not shot; The 
woods were fairly alive with birds and
the collecting very easy as the trees are
as bare as in winter. Found a Crows
nest with young, in a pitch pine but
did not ascend to it; the young kept
up a continuous whinging cry.
  May 14 [May 14, 1875] Clear with E. [east] wind. Spent all the A.M.
skinning birds & put up 16. Immediately
after dinner started off in the buggy
with Henry H. [Henry W. Henshaw] and drove up to Belmont.
Henry first tried the hill and shot
a pair of Hydemeles Ludovic [Hydemeles ludoviciana], a wood
thrush and a few others. This kept on
to "the willows" where he took a very 
fine [delete]Rhy Totanus solitarius [Rhyacophilus Totanus solitarius][/delete] Titanus
solitarius, a water thrush and a [female]
Hirundo horriorum [Hirundo horreorum]. Came home through
Prospect St. where we shot a [female] D. discolor [Dendroica discolor]
Arrivals were D. maculosa [Dendroica maculosa] 1 [male]; My. pusillus [Myiodioctes pusillus]
1 [male]; Seiurus noveboracensis s. a; D. discolor [Dendroica discolor]
[?]. a. Trochilus colubris 1 [male], (Cyanospiza
cyanea 3 [males] (R.D.1 ) A very few cherry blossoms
are out.