Troglodytes hyemalis
Hesperemes leucopus
1875.
(Dec. 2 [December 2, 1875]) passed through weather as severe as any
it would be called upon to endure (the
mercury reached 6 [degrees] below 0 on the morning
of Nov. 30th [November 30, 1875]) Keeping on up to the pine
swamp I started up a winter wren
among the bushes but although I was
on the point of firing, several times,
I finally lost it. While standing
near the edge of a little patch of clear
ice among tussocks & alders, Shot
who was poking about near me
started out a most beautiful little Hesperomys
leucopus from under a bunch of grass,
and I was much pleased at the
way the little fellow scrambled across
the glassy surface and precipitately
sought shelter in a hole on the other
side: he was in the tawny winter
pelage & quite unlike the one I
picked up some weeks ago. Keeping
on a little ways Shot drew on a
strong scent & finally pointed when
a grouse got up ahead. I fired both 
barrels at it and following it into
the middle of the swamp shot both
barrels again missing as before when
it flew out among the tall pines &
suddenly sweeping upward lit
on a dead limb some 30 ft. up.
Approaching cautiously I shot it
ignominiously where it sat. Its position 
was rather unusual the body being nearly
horozontal [horizontal] & the neck not very much stretched
out. Beating the rest of the swamp shot a
fine cock grouse which the dog drove out to me.
W.B. bag. grouse 2