Seiurus noveboracensis
MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
1875.
Aug. 13. [August 13, 1875] continue very numerous and these with
the water thrushes are I think the only
Incessorial species which have come down
from the N. [North] as yet. Birds are singing a
little more I think than they were several
week back. In the early morning and
again at sunset I hear the Baltimore, [Baltimore oriole]
and three species of Vireo, - flavifrons [Vireo flavifrons], gilvus [Vireo gilvus]
et olivaceus [Vireo olivaceus]; an occasional robin also
and sometimes a few notes from Contopus
virens.
Aug. 17 [August 17, 1875] Cloudy with wind S.E. [southeast]. Took the 9.30 boat for
Long is. [Long Island] Boston harbor and arriving at
about 10 A.M. walked over to the marsh and
began operations. Immense numbers of
small birds flying and I saw one
N. Hudsonicus [Numenius hudsonicus], three or four large plover, a
few Actiturus Bartramius, and two large
flocks of Gambetta flavipes. Shot during
the day twenty birds in some 28 shots
picking my bird each time and commencing
the morning with two double shots in
succession. Got four specimens for mounting,
three Aegialitis semipalmatus and a very
fine adlt. [adult] Tringa Bonapartii. Nearly all
the peeps that I saw or shot were E. petrificatus [Ereunetes petrificatus].
  The difference in the notes of the two species
is very tangible: that of T. minicetilla [Tringa minutilla] is
a mellow tweet, tweet: while the semipalmate
species utters a hoarse pep, pep; krep. krep,
almost like the peculiar note of T. maculata [Tringa maculata].
The querulous chatter heard from a flock while
feeding is I think produced by this