Op. agilis [Oporornis agilis], Porzana Carolina.
1875 Numenius Hud. [Numenius hudsonicus] Beautiful sunset
at Hummock pond
Striking across the commons
a small, obscurely colored bird
started among the scanty beach
grass and lit a few rods off:
starting after it I trod it up
and shot in [it] on wing and upon
picking it up found it to be
an Oporornis agilis, an immature
bird in fall plumage. A little
further on a rail started almost
under the horse's feet and shooting
it found the species to be P. Carolina,
also a y.y. fall pl. [plumage]. Still further on
in a sandy patch with [delete]scanty[/delete]
sparse wiry grass, I saw within
80 yds. a Numenius Hudsonicus
standing perfectly still and
pulling up the horse, I shot
him. Like the one killed Sat. [Saturday],
he was too fat to be available as
a specimen. Killed here two
Cot. passerinus [Coturniculus passerinus], neither in very
good plumage, a Colaptes auratus
(flying) a female, with decided
traces of a black cheek patch, and
a Sturnella magna, the latter a
very long shot made from the
wagon while in motion. Reaching
Hummock pond we found nothing
there excepting 16 black ducks which
started from a little fresh water pond
hole not over 10 yds square. Here Fisher
dug a couple of stands and we lay in 
them till dark, without getting a shot.
Was well paid however by witnessing a
most superb sunset enhanced by and
[margin]enhancing, a fine view up the pond and out over the foam flecked ocean
with great picturesque sand hills looming up against the beautifully
tinted sky. Three ducks passed us almost within range but the flock did not
return to feed in the pool as we had expected. Saw Ac. Cooperi [Accipiter cooperii], numbers of
Circus Hudsonicus, and a Pandion Car. [Pandion Carolinensis] but no large plover excepting at Smiths point[/margin]