MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
1875.
Sept. 18 [September 18, 1875] Clear and cold with high N.W. [northwest] wind.
Took the 11.10 train to Concord and meeting
Jim. on the cars we we immediately 
set out in his team which awaited us at
the station. First we took a turn on
the "Great meadows", Jim having heard
that some birds had come in, but
in a hasty beat we flushed only one
which Shot found and pointed handsomely
and which fell to my second barrel.
Getting into the wagon again we
drove for the North ground and beat
the Parker lot etc. without moving
anything except a covey of of 5 grouse
which Jim started wild. Melvin's run
also drew blank but on the birch
hillside above we put up a small
woodcock which I killed, and still
further on a very large one which
also fell to my first barrel. This latter 
bird lay among thick alders in a
wet run: both were moulting badly
and only the first whistled as he rose.
I shot also a [female] y.y. Cy. cyanea [Cyanospiza cyanea] in
fall pl. [plumage] and saw five or six Tyrannus
Carolinensis, and a few single Ampelis
cedrorum. I also saw a Trochilus colubris
about the 15th but I cannot remember
the precise date. Vireo flavifrons has
I think left at least I have not
seen any for several days