Chry. pinus [Chrysomitris pinus]
1875. Middlesex, Co., Mass. [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
June 7 [June 7, 1875] in a barberry with one young bird & 2 eggs
one quite fresh, other far advanced with shell chipped. Found also a nest of Cont.
virens [Contopus virens] newly finished, 2 D. Pennsyl. [Dendroica pensylvanica] with
2 eggs each & I took a third, found on the 3rd,
with 4 eggs. Found a nest of Emp. minimus [Empidonax minimus]
on the horizontal branch of a yellow pine
20 ft [feet] up and almost in the very fort where
Henry H. [Henry Henshaw] & I examined one in 1870.
Have not seen a single Trochilus colubris
since the immigration & then only one or two.
Cyanospiza cyanea is also very scarce
as well as Coc. americanus [Coccyzus americanus], C. erythrop. [Coccyzus erythropthalmus] is
more than ordinarily abundant. The
forest trees are seen in full leaf and
the season progressing rapidly. Mosquitos
fairly swarm this summer in the woods,
and are a great pest. Chy. pinus [Chrysomitris pinus] has
been abundant in the apple orchards during
the past week. Previous to that I have
seen none since some time in the
winter; like the crossbills their movements
seem utterly unexplainable, and beyond
the possibilities of conjecture as to governing cause or motive.
  June 8 [June 8, 1875] Clear and not very warm. Rose late wrote up
my journal and started at 11 A.M. for the
green heron's nest that I left in the pine
swamp but arriving there found the
whole affair gone. On the way back took
a turn in the maple swamp near
Fresh p. [Fresh Pond] crossing, and while making
my way through the thick bushes
came across a [female] Geothlypis Phila [Geothlypis philadelphia] and
shot her, but at so close range that 