(Melanistic Buteo) Turdus migratorius nest 4 eggs fresh. Watrn. [Watertown] Frazar. [Abbott Frazar]
Gen. ar. [general arrival] Vireo solitarius - Lincoln. W.B. [William Brewster] Last (?) T. Pallasi [Turdus pallasii]
MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts] Pipilo erythrop. [Pipilo erythropthalmus] 2ond [second] [male] - Lincoln.
1876 Notes on Bubo Virginianus - nest of gray squirrel
Monday
May 1 May 1, 1876] Clear and very cold with N.W. [Northwest] wind. Max. [Maximum]
temperature 40 [degrees]. Rose early and met
Frazer [Frazar] at his house by appointment. Drove
up to Lincoln with him and visited
the swamp where [delete]the[/delete] we looked for the
great horned owls nest in March. Hunted
the whole place very thoroughly for hawks
nests but did not see an egg all day,
though a pair of Buteo lineatus were
hanging about the place and by their
persistent dogging of our footsteps convinced
us that they had a nest somewhere in
the vicinity. The [male] came overhead a
number of times and I had one very
fair shot at him but the gun hung fire
so badly that I missed. Saw one of the
Bubos the [male] apparently, and I fired a
long shot at him but without effect. He 
was followed by a mob of crows as usual 
& was excessively shy. A number of pellets
that we found in his haunt were of enormous
size! one of them was composed entirely of
skunks hair and bones, among the latter
the claws of the front feet being all present.
Saw also an Accipiter fuscus and a large 
hawk coal black. The latter was emphatically
not an Archibuteo and I think it must
have been a melanistic Buteo borealis as
it was very large & its flight etc. identical
with that species. It passed very near & I had
a good view of it. Shot two Vireo solitarius
& two Hirundo horreorum. There was a general ar [general arrival]
of V. solitarius [Vireo solitarius] and F. [Frazar] shot a [male] Pipilo [Pipilo erythropthalmus]. D. coronata [Dendroica coronata]
et palmarum [Dendroica palmarum] still abundant. Sayornis in
small companies & apparently not breeding yet.
F. found a nest of Turdus mig. [Turdus migratorius] with 4 eggs, fresh.
[margin]We also found a gray squirrel with four young about half grown in what appeared to be an old hawks nest. Caught three of the young & brought them home. The old squirrel ran out of the nest at the first alarm & the piercing cries of the young failed utterly to recall her. Saw one T. pallasi [Turdus pallasii][/margin]