73 
1876, 
Gallinago wilsoni. 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
(May 8) 
Nesbitt shot three in the Fresh Pond swamps. 
Sept,10, 
Seven at Concord. 
“ 13, 
Snipe eight at Concord, 
Oet, 12. 
One (Concord River). 
Nov. 9. 
One on the Fresh Pond marshes. 
1879. 
Apr, 26. 
Six seen by Spolman in the Fresh Pond swamps. 
July 13. 
Humphrey Buttriek tells me that several pairs of 
these Snipe, having passed the summer on the Great Mea¬ 
dows (Concord) and are undoubtedly breeding. On July 
4th he flushed six birds, all apparently adults. He has 
heard them in the evening on many different occasions. 
1881. 
S 
Sept.30. 
Flushed one from a ditch at Block Island within ten 
yards of the spot where I killed one in 1871. 
Oct. 11. 
Numbers have been shot within the past few days on 
the salt marshes bordering Charles River: the fresh wa- 
ter marshes and swamps are entirely dry after the severs 
drought, Garfield shot twelve on the great Meadows 
at Concord on the 9th, 
“ 13. 
Started three (Concord), 
