D. palmarum [Dendroica palmarum] last seen D. aestiva [Dendroica aestiva] first [female]
MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
(Arrivals vide May 11)
1876.
Tuesday
May 9 [May 9, 1876] Cloudy & rained nearly all day. Spent the
entire day skinning and mounting birds.
Heard a single Vireo gilvus this morning
also numbers of V. flavifrons [Vireo flavifrons] also [female] D. aestiva [Dendroica aestiva]
D. palmarum [Dendroica palmarum] last seen several our garden
  Thursday
May 11 [May 11, 1876] Clear with high N.W. [northwest] wind and quite cool
Arrivals were Vireo Noveboracensis 1 male, Setophaga
ruticilla 2 adlt [adult males] (& 1 [female] or im. [immature male]). Turdus fuscescens
gen. ar. [general arrival] Rhyacophilus solitarius gen ar [general arrival] Cambridge
Belmont in P.M. arrivals seen were Turdus
mustelinus 1 [male], Goneaphea Ludoviciana [Goniaphea ludoviciana] gen. ar. [general arrival]
Dend. Pennsylvanica [Dendroica pensylvanica] 1 male, Seiurus aurocapellus [Seiurus aurocapillus]
1 male (singing in air) Rose at 5 this morning
and went up to the swamps. Found birds
excessively numerous but had so poor luck
in any shots that I bagged only 11 specimens
1 Totanus solitarius, 1 Rallus Virgin. [Rallus virginianus], 1 Vireo
Nov. [Vireo noveboracensis] 3 Mel. palustris [Melospiza palustris] 3 Parule Am [Parula americana] (1 female)
Saw at least a dozen Parula Am [Parula americana] in one
flock. The morning was so cold that 
the birds were congregated in the little
sunny sheltered nooks. Least flycatchers
with several species of warblers were picking
up the torpid insects from the ground.
D. coronata [Dendroica coronata] is still abundant but most
of the individuals are females. Rails were
exceedingly numerous & I heard them everywhere
through the swamps. Saw a single
Falco sparverius skimming along
close over the meadows. Later in P.M.
took a drive up through Belmont &
saw the species enumerated above. The
grass is very green & high for the season
but arboreal vegetation rather backward none
[margin]of the forest trees having started at all as yet.[/margin]