1875
June 17 [June 17, 1875] and also a single Picus villosus and Vireo
solitarius, the two latter with My. crinitus [Myiarchus crinitus]
not being noted afterwards during our progress
towards & into N.H. [New Hampshire] At 3 P.M. we left
the Mountain house after a good dinner,
and made the town of Rindge N.H. [Ridge, New Hampshire]
by 7.30 P.M. a distance of about 24 miles.
Passing through Westminster depot , and
Ashburnham. Very quickly does the flora 
and to a certain extent the fauna, change
after leaving Wachusett. Spruces, larches and
firs [delete]freely[/delete] were now freely intermingled with
the more cosmopolitan birches and maples,
the bunch berry grew along the roadside
everywhere and the hermit thrush became
one of the commonest birds. A few
miles N. [north] of Ashburnham and I think
within our State line the road passed
through a large swamp - just such a
swamp as in Me. [Maine] would harbor the 
spruce grouse and the Canada jay, and
here stopping a moment to listen I
was much pleased at hearing a [male] Dend
Blackburniae [Dendroica blackburniae] in full song and undoubtedly
breeding. At this place we also listened
a long time to that most delicious of all
bird melody, the song of the hermit
thrush; the bird was I think the finest
performer that I ever heard and the
notes of his calm lofty reverie were
[delete]abs clear and[delete] given with a depth and
clearness of intonation absolutely faultless.
Passing several beautiful pond [ponds] where
the loons, we were told bred, we put
up for the night at the Rindge hotel