May 1874 After waiting an hour embarked on the train for N.Y. returning at once to our berths. May 11 Wrote this morning as the cars were running into Jersey City. Showing the transportation coach over I obliged to him a hack across N.Y. to the Grand Central depot where I took the 8.10 train for the New Haven road, R.D. remaining behind to look up our trunks which had not arrived. Passed quite a comfortable day in the cars getting into Boston by 8.15 C.M. The only ornithological note worthy of record was a Mel. erythropthalmus 10 m. E. of Worcester. Phylacophus solitarius has been common all the way from Harpers ferry to Boston: at one place as many as thirty started off from a small pool near the track! There is a very fine looking The region about Westboro Mass is a very fine looking on for Woodcock & grouse, with a capital strip meadow winding for miles across the railroad. Found Chads at the depot & at the house all well & a pleasant surprise in meeting Henry H. then. He stayed all the evening & we talked over affairs to our hearts content. Beyond the face of the country in Mass.