Arrivals Vireo solitarius - one [male] - Lincoln (WB) [William Brewster]
[Arrivals] Mniotilta varia - [one male Lincoln William Brewster]
MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts] [Arrivals] Hirundo horreorum g.a. [general arrival] Newton (Apr. 28 [April 28, 1876]) C.J.
1876. Nest building of Parus atricapillus 
(April 29 [April 29, 1876]) in silence [delete]and flew[/delete] when I came
under the tree and flew away through
the trees as stealthily as possible.
Spent the whole forenoon hunting
through the woods for hawks nests & the
orchards for owls but found absolutely
nothing excepting a chiadee's [chickadee's] nest which
from the peculiarity of the situation
merits a few remarks. I was standing
still in an oak grove when I heard a
dull tapping almost at my feet & looking
closely saw a chickadee emerge from the
top of stump with a mouthful of rotten
fibre which she flew off some distance
with before dropping. Going up to examine
the [delete]off[/delete] nest more closely I found that
the bark had started off from one side
of the stump (an oak stub 36 in. high & 6 in 
diameter) leaving a small space between it
and the rotten wood. Entering at the
top the birds had worked at first in a
little, then downward until the cavity reached
deeper than the indirect rays of light penetrated.
[delete]would reveal[/delete]. The little fellow soon came
back and went busily to work again not
regarding my near proximity in the least.
Saw a number of D. palmarum [Dendroica palmarum] some
few D. pina [Dendroica pinus] and a number of R. calendula [Regulus calendula]
the first & last are unusually abundant
this year. Arrivals were Mniotilta varia one
[male], and Vireo solitarius one [male] both singing
One each of these were also seen by Mr. Eager
in Brookline. Saw a few Zon. albicollis [Zonotrichia albicollis]
but Mr. Maynard tell [tells] me he saw them
April. There was a general arrival of