Last Chaetura pelagica er Trochilus colubris
MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
1876.
Sept. 13 [September 13, 1876]
Cloudy with slight mist. Took the 2 P.M. train
for Concord meeting Jim [James C. Melvin] at Porter's. Arriving
at C. [Concord] we drove down to the snipe meadow.
I had my pointer "Smuggler" this being the
first time that he had taken the field.
Humph. Buttrick [Humphrey Buttrick] joined us on the meadow.
Eight snipe were started by the combined
efforts of all three and every bird of them
was shot, only two shots being missed. I
walked a few hundred yards in all and
killed two snipe in two shots. The birds
lay remarkably well and Jim's dog made
a number of points. Leaving here we
drove over to Hall's where Jim hunted
for woodcock while I remained in the
buggy. He started six in a very short
time and killed two of them. Smuggler did
little either to his credit or discredit. W.B. [William Brewster] snipe 2
  Sept. 14 [September 14, 1876] Clear and a superb day. Started off with
Jim's horse after breakfast and drove first
down to Hall's where I tied and commenced
to hunt for two woodcock which Jim left there
last night. Found them very near the road
and worked the pointer on them for some time
but without getting him to point. Finally started
one of them in some rather scanty birches &
shot at it, as I thought without effect but following
on in the direction in which it flew Smuggler
suddenly came down handsomely on a stiff
point and I found the woodcock lying
dead a few feet in front of his nose.
After this drove down to Lincoln and came back
by Sandy pond shooting a fine im. [immature male] Buteo
Penn. [Buteo pensylvanica] from the buggy & missing another. Saw a 
single Trochilus colubris & several Chaetura pelagica, the last.
[margin]W.B. [William Brewster] Woodcock 1[/margin]