Querquedula discors. The last Trochilus
MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
The last Hirundo horreorum et lunifrons [Hirundo lunifrons] et
bicolor [Hirundo bicolor].
1876.
Aug. 30 [August 30, 1876] C.J. Maynard found a flock of about a dozen 
 Que. discors [Querquedula discors] in a little pond on Shade St in
Waltham, opposite "the Gore place" and killed
two of them. He also shot a single E. minimus [Empidonax minimus] 
the last of the season.
  Sept. 6 [September 6, 1876] This evening while at Maynards saw a
number of Chordeiles popetue migrating S. [south]
and have seen them in greater or less abundance
nearly every evening since Aug. 25. [August 25, 1876]. Generally
they pass over rather high up keeping along
pretty steadily but several times I have
seen them when it had become quite dusky
gliding ghost-like through the gardens &
streets of the city keeping close to the ground.
  Sept 7 [September 7, 1876] Took a drive through Belmont this morning
and shot two T. aedon [Troglodytes aedon] near the road. Saw
two Trochilus colubris probably the last,
and at sundown this evening a large body
of H. bicolor [Hirundo bicolor] flying over our place in
Cambridge towards the S. [south]
  Sept. 9 [September 9, 1876] Went up to Concord this P.M. and drove
down to Dam meadow with Jim to try
Apthorpe's setter "Dash". The afternoon was
cloudy with thick mist and I saw two H.
horreorum [Hirundo horreorum] and one H. lunifrons [Hirundo lunifrons] flying low
down over the meadow among a number of
chimney swifts. Of the latter I saw a vast
assemblage flying about over the town upon
our return.