Apr. 6 [April 6, 1876] Poocetes gramineus [Pooecetes gramineus] - Hir. bicolor [Hirundo bicolor] - one each Newton C.J.M. [C.J. Maynard]
[Apr.] 7 [April 7, 1876] Pas savanna [Passerculus savanna] one Waltham. H. bicolor [Hirundo bicolor] - g.a. [general arrival] Belmont
Mass. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
[Apr.] 8 [April 8, 1876] Pandion Carolina [Pandion carolinensis] 2 Belmt. [Belmont], (Frazar) Ac. fuscus [Accipiter fuscus] 2 [Belmont] (R. D. [Ruthven Deane])
1876. [Apr. 8] [April 8, 1876] Pas. iliaca, still abdnt. [abundant]
Apr. 6 [April 6, 1876] Poocetes gramineus [Pooecetes gramineus], a single bird, was seen
at Newton today by C.J. Maynard;
also at same place one Hirundo bicolor
(the latter shot) Saw second Sayornis this P.M. 
at Waltham
  Apr. 7 [April 7, 1876] Clear with high wind. Took a drive
with Frazer in P.M. Saw immense numbers
of Pas. iliaca [Passerella iliaca] everywhere; they were mostly
in the orchards and many of the
males were singing gloriously! On the
way home heard a Pas. savanna [Passerella savanna]
singing at dusk in Waltham. Saw a flock
of about 30 Hirundo bicolor flying about
our Rock meadow in Waltham.
  [Apr.] 8 [April 8, 1876] Clear with high wind. R. Deane [Ruthven Deane] was out
in Belmont in P.M. with Mr. Pullen
to try a dog. They got up five woodcock
in the Cotton run. He saw two Accipiter
fuscus. Frazer saw two Pandion Carolinensis
also in Belmont. C. Hart Merriam arrived
this evening and will spend Sunday
with me to leave for Eastport Me. [Eastport, Maine] on
Monday with myself and Stone.
He informs me that Zon. albicollis [Zonotrichia albicollis]
wintered in hundreds at New Haven
Conn. [New Haven, Connecticut] in winter of 1874-5. They
came within the city and he shot one
from his window. He has not seen
any at all the present (past) winter.
The fields are now about half bare and
some immense drifts still remain
to remind us of the late fierce storm.