Parula Am. [Parula americana]
MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
1875.
Aug. 31 [August 31, 1875] Started immediately after breakfast and took
a tramp with W. Stone [William Stone] into the swamps.
I shot two Seth. ruticilla [Setophaga ruticilla], a Mniotilta varia
a Vireo flav. [Vireo flavifrons] (adlt. fine pl. [adult in fine plumage]) a Parula Am. [Parula americana] &
a Nyctiardea Gardenii. The latter bird was
an adult moulting, nearly all the wing 
feather being new; it had only one plume
and the steel blue of the back and crown was
replaced by a dark, lustreless plumbeous.
The Parula was a young bird moulting pre-
paratory to throwing out the full fall plumage.
The heron came flying silently up, as we
were sitting together in the cool shade of the
maple swamp and lighted within about
40 yds. when I shot him with a heavy
charge of No.10. Dolychonx orizivorus [Dolichonyx oryzivorus] is
still with us in small numbers.
  Sept. 2 [September 2, 1875] Clear and warm. Wind E. [east] With W. Stone [William Stone] took
the 9.30 boat for Long is. [Long Island] and shot there all
day returning at 6 P.M. Found peeps very
numerous on the hills and setting out
our decoys we killed about 75 birds
between us of which 35 fell to my share.
Nearly all of them were killed singly. Had
a very fine Tringites rufescens given me
by a man who picked it up dead.
Saw a Numenius Hudson. [Numenius hudsonicus], and one
large plover. Among the peeps we killed two
T. minutilla [Tringa minutilla], all the rest were E. pusilla.
Saw two Mac griseus [Macrorhamphus griseus] which were killed
from a flock of a dozen that lit on the
flats: both were immature birds. Saw also
a single Otamus flavips flying about.