Eremophila cornute
1876.
Thursday Ipswich - March 30 - 1876
March 30 [March 30,1876] Morning clear. Cloudy in P.M. with very heavy
snow squalls and high wind. Took the 8.30
A.M. train for Ipswich with Stone and arriving
there took a dory of Wm Stone [William Stone] and arriving
there took a dory of Wm Stone and started 
down river. Reached the sand hills in a
very short time as both wind & tide were
fair, and landing searched carefully for
P. princeps [Passerculus princeps] but without success. Then
pulled back to Great neck where we
landed and walked over to Eagle hill a
distance of about two miles, but no sooner
had we got there than it commenced to
snow heavily so we were glad to seek
shelter in the gunning house of W.L. Stone
who received us kindly. After the squall had
passed we walked back to our boat and
started for town against wind & tide. When
about half the distance was accomplished it
commenced snowing exceedingly fast and we
finally reached town wet & miserable
without having either of us killed a single
bird of any description. We saw in all 
perhaps a dozen Eremophila alpestris but
no snow bunting. The shore larks were
reported as very plenty the first of the week
& it is probable that the bulk of them
have left for the North.
  Friday
March 31 [March 31, 1876] Clear and cool with high wind. Went up on
the farm in A.M. & shot 9 cedar birds. 6 were 
wax tipped & 3 of these [males]. [delete]Of[/delete] The 3 plain birds
were all [female]. Saw four or five small flocks but all
were rather shy. Heard a Carpodacus singing
& saw a flock of six Chry. tristis [Chrysomitris tristis] all in winter pl. [plumage].
Saw two Antiopa butterflies for the first time