128 1873 Oct. 25 Middlesex County, Mass. Drove up to 'the hill' with Baston. He shot 2 snipe in a grove. I shot a o.g. tricked, the last of the season. Turdus pallasii saw & in our garden feeding together on honey suckle berries Oct. 26. " 29 Oct. 29 went off with Scott: he shot four Anthus ludovicianus from a large flock that was feeding on ploughed land over Belmont; when in a with grassy meadow they would remain perfectly silent & motionless at our approach of were very difficult to see. Gen. arrival of Szig monticola this morning. Nov. 1 Went off with Baston. Saw a o. Mathius fusis on Arlington Heights & fired at a grove in the willows as it ran from the roadside but missed. " 6 Shot a very fine & adult o. Buteo borealis from my buggy this morning, on the Wachusta place. Its crop contained a small rat food & body detached but both swallowed; in the stomach remains of two or three mice including both heads & bodies & among them a slender white worm about six inches in length. The birds was very fat & they are easily skinned. " 7 Cloudy & cold. Mr P. M. drove up on 'the hill' with J. Noble, he proposing to give Shot a hunt for me. At the first cast of he started a small grey two bird of which happened to come out slight near me on the roadside, calling out N. I took his gun & worked the jump up to them, he pointing both in grand style & I doing my part on each with the first barrel.