Arrivals (Apr. 30 [April 30, 1876]) Piplio erythrop [Pipilo erythrophthalmus] - one Waltham WB [William Brewster]
MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts] Gen. [General Arrivals (April 30, 1876)] Mniotilta varia [Waltham] 
1876. [Arrivals] Porzana Noveboracensis one Apr. [April 1876]
(April 29 [April 29, 1876]) Hirundo horreorum at Newton Apr. 28 [April 28, 1876].
Mr. Eager found a nest of Buteo lineatus
in Brookline to day. It was built in 
a large white pine as usual about half
way up. He caught the [female] parent with a 
steel trap set in the nest. The eggs were 
4 in number & had been incubated only
a few days. They were exhibited by
him at the club this evening and 
are the most beautiful set I ever
examined. Jesse Warren took a set
of 3 eggs at Newton April 1st. They
had been incubated several days. The 
nest was the same as that he took 
two sets of eggs from last year and 
one set in 1874. He caught both parents 
this season substituting hens eggs in the 
nest and setting a steel trap under them. 
Saw a number of Juncos [Junco hyemalis] in small flocks
Sunday
April 30 Cloudy with warm rain commencing at 10 A.M. 
Drove up to the Warren run with R. Deane [Ruthven Dean]
this A.M. and hunted for the woodcocks
nest again but without success though
we started the [male] in nearly the same
place as the other day. There was a 
general arrival of Mniotilta varia &
I heard a single Pipilo erythrophthalmus
The grass on the meadows is getting
very green. Two snipe were seen 
this morning by R. Nesbitt and he 
reports rails very abundant.
Goodale had a Porzana noveboracensis
sent in about two weeks since