Arrivals - Icterus spurius Contopus virens
MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts] Chordeiles popetue  Cy. cyanea [Cyanospiza cyanea]
1876.
Friday
Dend. striata [Dendroica striata] P. rubra [Piranga rubra]
My. Canadensis [Myiodioctes canadensis]
May 19 [May 19, 1876] Clear and a lovely day. Spent the entire
day skinning birds also hiring Stone to help
me. Walking out in the garden after breakfast
saw a pair of Icterus spurius. The [male] was
one of those immature greenish birds with
a black throat. Came in and got my
gun but when I got out again they
were missing. The note was as remarked
in Oa. exactly like the cac of the red wing
blackbird. Heard a Turdus swainsoni
singing faintly in the garden at sunset
Heard several C. popetue [Chordeiles popetue] this evening
Sunday 
May 21 [May 21, 1876] Cloudy with thunder showers. Spent all
day yesterday with Stone working on
the birds brought up from Chatham
and finished them by evening making
in the two days over thirty skins and
six mounted. This morning heard
the faint monotone of D. striata [Dendroica striata] in
our garden. The trees are leafing out
very fast and vegetation is seasonally 
green and luxuriant this spring.
In the P.M. took a ride up through the willows
heard Cy. cyanea [Cyanospiza cyanea] chirping and saw a Contopus
virens. Frazer saw several P. rubra and a 
My. Canadensis [Myiodioctes canadensis]. Ther. [Thermometer] 80 [degrees] in P.M.
Monday 
May 22 [May 22, 1876] Clear and hot, Ther. [Thermometer] 85. This morning heard an
indigo bird singing in our garden also a My.
Canadensis [Myiodioctes canadensis] et M. pusillus [Myiodioctes pusillus]. The song of the latter
resembles that of the water thrush but possesses more
of its beauty. Represented in words it is like
she, ti-ti-ti-ti-ti-tee. The bird has also a complaining
whining note something like that of the vireos. It jerks its
tail like M. Canadensis [Myiodioctes canadensis]