Turdus migratorius - gen. ar. [general arrival]
MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts] Nyctale Acadica - one Watertown (Feb. 26) [February 26, 1876]
1876. March 8 - 1875
March 8 [March 8, 1876] Cloudy & warm with occasional showers from the S.W. [Southwest]
There was a general arrival of robins yesterday
and today: this evening I saw a single
bird flying across our place lighting on the
tops of the taller trees as they are wont to do
when first they return to their summer
home. A Nyctale Acadica was shot Feb.
25 [February 25, 1876] - near the Arsenal in Watertown by
Mr. Patten of that town.
  [March] 11 [March 11, 1876] Cloudy and chilly with N. [North] wind. Off after breakfast
driving up to Lincoln with Abbott Frazar.
Leaving F's [ Abbott Frazar] team at a farmers barn we struck
into an immense pine swamp where F. 
found a nest of Bubo Vir. [Bubo virginianus] last year, or rather
a single young bird able to fly so short a distance
that he was easily caught. The nest had
been in a pine but this winter it entirely
disappeared having been probably blown down
by the wind. It was first discovered in 1873
by Mr. Dwight Whiting who took from it a set
of eggs of Buteo borealis by which bird it
was undoubtedly originated. The next season
the same gentleman visited it again & found
it tenanted by the owls who had hatched out
two young one of which was taken and last 
season as just related the owls again
nested there. The nest was described to me by
F.  as nearly 4 ft in external diameter.
The tree which I examined was a white
pine of about two feet diameter at base growing
upon the eastern edge of the [delete]swamp[/delete] pine
growth and overlooking a stretch of swampy
maple and ash timber. The nest had been