Tringa minutilla, Zon. leucophrys [Zonotrichia leucophrys]
Dend. tigrina [Dendroica tigrina]. Nests of Sialia sialis and Mel. melodia [Melospiza melodia]
1875. May 22 - 1875 Middlesex Co., Mass. [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
May 22 [May 22, 1875] hawks nest but was utterly unsuccessful 
though I [delete]started[/delete] found the [male] bird
sitting on a tussock near where I 
observed him plunging yesterday.
Started several rails (R. Vir. [Rallus virginianus]) and
a bittern but do not think they
have laid yet,  Birds are very
late this year in their nesting. Robins
and bluebirds have but barely commenced
incubation. I took a nest of the latter
from a box in our garden, this
morning, containing 5 fresh eggs.
Saw numerous My pusillis [Myiodioctes pusillus] et Canadinsis [Myiodioctes canadensis]
but did not shoot any as I should
have had not time to skin them.
Am very positive that I heard a [male]
D. tigrina [Dendroica tigrina] singing in Waverley but
the locality being dangerous I did
not attempt to shoot him. Coming
home through Prospect St. I started a 
pair of Zon leucophrys [Zonotrichia leucophrys] out of the
road and tying the horse I shot down
both but could find only one, the [female].
Heard the [male] sing several times: the
song as noted in 1873 is very plaintive
and commences in exactly the same time
and key as that of Pooecetes gramineus.
it was also very feeble but I have
no idea that what we hear here is
the full finished performance and
indeed it may be far from it as in
the case of D. tigrina [Dendroica tigrina] and Zon. albicollis [Zonotrichia albicollis]
At this place found a nest of M. melodia [Melospiza melodia]
with 5 fresh eggs. From what I saw this
afternoon I judge that a very heavy flight
of birds passed us today. Tringa minutilla in
[margin]large flocks on the Brighton marshes this afternoon (Herbert Eustis)[/margin]