D. palmarum [Dendroica palmarum] D. coronata [Dendroica coronata]
Ampelis ced. [Ampelis cedrorum] and Falco columbarius
Nantucket
1875
Sept. 30 [September 30, 1875] Rose this morning feeling quite
sick and feverish and lay in my
bunk nearly all the forenoon. Sidney
went out several times with Stone's 
gun and killed three beetle heads.
I shot a D. palmarum [Dendroica palmarum] from the door
of the house and I also heard the 
chirp of D. coronata [Dendroica coronata]. In P.M. feeling
much worse, sent Sid up to town
whence he returned about sunset [delete]with[/delete]
in Capt. Burdett's sail boat and getting
our things on board we were back
in our old quarters at Mr. Folgers
by 7 P.M.
  Taxidermy. Messrs. Stone & Brewster,
two gentlemen from Boston, are guests at the
house of Reuben P. Folger Esq. They are 
collecting and mounting specimens of our
island birds. They have, we understand,
obtained a very fine collection.
The Island Review.
Thursday, September 30, 1875.
  Oct. 1 [October 1, 1875] Woke this morning much better and
spent the day packing up our birds
etc.
  Oct. 2 [October 2, 1875] Started for home this morning. Came across
the sound in the steamer Island Home
leaving Nantucket at 8 and arriving at
Woods hole at 11.30. The wind was
blowing a perfect gale [delete]but[/delete] and the waves
running very high but in spite of this
I saw numbers of terns all the way
across, also several large flocks of coots,
one of which, flying over me at Woods
hole I distinctly saw was composed
entirely of adlt [adult male] Pel. perspicillata [Pelionetta perspicillata].
Here I also saw a flock of about 40 Am.
cedrorum [Ampelis cedrorum] and while watching them an im [immature] Falco
columbarius glided swiftly up and picked one
of them of [off] a branch before the flock took the alarm