Cambridge  May - 1877
MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
1877
May 16 [May 16, 1877] Through the winter months birds of all
kinds were excessively scarce and I saw
and heard of so few that I did not think
it worth while to take the field and thro' [through]
Jan'y [January], and Feb'y [February] I did not fire a
shot or make any observations worth
recording. Saturday March 3rd [March 3, 1877] I started
for Florida where I spent the rest of
the month, returning to Georgia on April
5th [April 5, 1877] and remaining at St. Mary's in that
state until May 4th [May 4, 1877] when I started for
home and landed in Boston May 10th [May 10, 1877]. A
more detailed record of this trip will be
found in another journal. Arriving at
home late at night I woke early the next
morning to hear the robins singing in the
linden trees the first robins I had heard
this year. Everything was very backward
in Mass. [Massachusetts] and up to the day of my arrival
there had been seventy consecutive days of East wind,
and chilly cloudy weather. But Sunday
May 13 [May 13, 1877] was warm and pleasant and since
then the wind has been mostly from the
S.W. [southwest] the ther. [thermometer] about 75 [degrees] - 80 [degrees] at noon and
the vegetation and birds have come on apace.
This afternoon I took my collecting pistol and
with Will Stone drove up to the willows
where I shot twelve birds, all common ones,
for Allen, except a My. pusillus [Myiodioctes pusillus] [male].
  May and June
Through the remainder of this month I
remained in Cambridge but collected very
little my time being otherwise taken up.
June 16th [June 16, 1877] I went to Concord Mass. [Concord, Massachusetts] 
where I passed the entire summer

