69 
1872. 
Gallinago vrilsoni. 
Middlosox County^ Mass. 
(Apr.16) 
Thirteen were started to-day, eleven of them on the 
Belmont meadows. On April 12 these meadows v/'ere fro¬ 
zen hard and not a Snipe could bo found. 
“ 17. 
Visited a field near the Peder powder house Medford, 
which is reported to have been swarming with Snipe yes¬ 
terday but found only four or five remaining; the place 
was a large ploughed field v/ith a rain-water pond in the 
middle. Also started fourteen Snipe on the Belmont 
meadow’s. All these birds must have com' during the rain 
storm of the 16th. The frost is not yet entirely out 
of the meadows. 
* 25. 
Three in Belmont and tvmlve ay Wayland. Pound two 
in an old corn-filed where the ground v^as soft and wet; 
one flew to an apple orchard on a hill—top, where ho 
lay closely under a small bush pile. 
May 7. 
Two on the Fresh Pond marshes, one at Wayland, thirty 
at Concord. 
- 12. 
A single bird shot at Concord. 
1874. 
Mar. 26. 
One seen in the Fresh Pond marshes although the 
ground is still frozen underneath. 
May 5-9 
The Nesbitts toll me there was a good flight of 
Snipe during this time; seven being killed o n the 5th 
and more or less daily up to the 9th. * 
Sept.28, 
Started five on the Fresh Pond marshes. 
“ 30. 
One whicii I shot at set his wings, sailed about ten 
yards and dropped into a thicket of tall bushes interla-, 
cod v/ith briars. My setter hunted this closely-rfor at * 
least half an hour but failed to find him. 
Oct, 1. 
In the evening twilight one passed over my head in 
the Fresh Pond marshes flying with almost inconceivable 
swiftness. The seaipe of those Snipe sounds much rich- 
er and deeper v/hen they are flying about after dark, 
than in the day time. Robert Nesbitt tells me that ho 
started a flock of at least fifty Wilson’s Snipe this 
morning. They ros ' several hundred yards ahead and 
flew directly out of sight. 
- 3. 
Saw about twenty-five op the Fresh Pond marshes. 
They lay remarkably close, six in one instance rising frcn 
nearly the same plac , giving us time to change shells 
between each shot. 
