Chatham, Mass. [Chatham, Massachusetts] The last Gallinago Wils. [Gallinago wilsoni]
Arrivals Tringa canutus, large flock
1876. [Arrivals] Falco sparverius, [female]
Monday
May 8 [May 8, 1876] Clear and very warm in A.M. Cloudy with
rain in P.M. Had breakfast early and
went out on the marshes S. [south] of the town.
I shot a fine pair of Aegialites melodus
& saw several others. Marsh birds are
beginning to come in numbers as
I saw a dozen or more flocks of
peeps (both species) a large flock of
Tringa canutus and several Gambetta
melanoleuca. Heard ad [adult] Dend. aestiva [Dendroica aestiva] 
and a Parula Am. [Parula americana]. Spizella pusilla is
very abundant here as are also
crow blackbirds which are around
the house in large flocks. Lon  [Alonza Nye] has
ten live brant which he uses for
decoys. They were all shot last month
and their broken wings were well 
healed. They became tame in a
few days and are most beautiful
birds. Their notes are a gabble; a
quack almost like a ducks but a little
hoarser and a hiss like the domestic 
goose's. Their motions are all essentially
goose like but they are more graceful
birds than the larger species. They
run very rapidly on land and
with perfect ease & grace and feed
readily on corn and green grass.
Took the stage at 12, the cars at
Harwich at 2.15 - and arrived in Boston
at 6.15 P.M. Saw a single Falco sparverius 
on the marsh this morning.
Dendroica caerulescens [male] Goodale, Wakefield, Mass [Wakefield, Massachusetts].
Three snipe were shot at Cambridge this
morning by John Nesbitt.