Nantucket island Mass. [Nantucket Island, Massachusetts]
Coturniculus passerinus
Nantucket
1875.
Sept. 20 [September 20, 1875] Left Boston on the 8 A.M. train with
Messrs. Stone and Bailey and arrived
at the city at 2.30 P.M. Engaged board
at Reuben P. Folgers at 10.50 per week
and getting out our guns we immediately
set out for "the commons."
Found Cot. passerinus [Coturniculus passerinus] in goodly numbers
where C.J.M. [Charles Johnson Maynard] & myself shot them in
'74 [1874] and I killed 3 fine specimens, 2
in fall plumage and the other a nestling
in process of change. We found them in 
little companies of 5 or 6 among the
ranker growths of grass and were obliged
to shoot them on wing as the [they] lay
very close and could not be seen on
the ground. They were perfectly silent
and fly at this season like P. Savanna [Passerculus savanna]. I also
shot a Tyrannus Carolinensis in fall
plumage without the red patch on the
crown.
  Sept 21 [September 21, 1875]  Clear and lovely day with a fresh
S.W. [Southwest] wind. Started off together
immediately after breakfast and
[delete]taking[/delete] hiring a row boat of Mr. Burdett
we started for Cotue point [Coatue point] with a
native, Sid. Fisher by name who volunteered
his services. On the end of the
point I shot a Strep. interpres [Strepsilas interpres] (y.y.) that
was feeding among some ring necks
along the drift at high water mark.
I noticed nothing peculiar in his 
motions excepting perhaps that as
I approach [approached] he skulked off among