1876.
Thursday
Dec. 7 [December 7, 1876] A.M. cloudy. P.M. clear and warm with S. [south] wind.
Started off at 10 & Capt. B. [Captain Baxter] drove me to the head
of the river where I commenced again & hunted
down for snipe. Started 3 birds fired four 
shots, killed 2 snipe & found 1 that I killed 
Thursday & could not then find. Also shot
an A. hyemalis [Anas hyemalis] which was hopping about
under the banks of the brook. In P.M. went
East with the Capt. His dog found & pointed
a small bevy of quail in the open and as 
they rose I took a cloud of feathers from
my first bird & with the second barrel
killed the largest cock quail that I ever
shot. He weighed exactly 8 2/16 oz.
D. coronata [Dendroica coronata] still abundant especially so in 
the thickets along the river where I suspect
they retire in severe weather.
Friday
Dec. 8 [December 8, 1876] Clear and sunny. After breakfast spent an hour
or two hunting grouse in the woods behind
Hinckleys. Shot 4 times but did not bag anything.
Smuggler made a good point on one bird.
At about 10 A.M. Capt. B. joined me & we
hunted over to "the Hinckley farm" where Cap.
found & pointed a bevy of quail in a deep
hollow. As they rose I singled out a bird
for each barrel & killed both. Capt. B. also
fired both barrels. Upon hunting for the 
dead birds what was our surprise at 
finding six birds scattered around
on the ground. How we killed so many
will always be a mystery to me.
Cap afterwards found & pointed one of
the scattered bevy & I killed it as it
[margin]Grouse 1 - quail 1 Snipe 3 - quail 1[/margin]