150 MSS. (Middlesex Co.) 1875. June 11 Rest of Wreo Novoracensis Middley Co., Mass. Either as I shall try for the nest again next week. Striking across the fields for the station I heard another singing and chasing him about for a few minutes finally shot him with the pistol. On one occasion I stepped up on a knoll and found him squatted flat on the mud beneath me like a snipe or a woodcock. This bird was in a little pedge pink in a pasture when I never saw one before though I have often been through the place. Here I heard singing all at once C. Hornsby's Express and O. Davanna, York the 6.35 train home. June 14 Chill and cold with high N.W. wind. This at [illegible] was only 40° and heavy frosts reported from parts of N.H. How early and got off by it, Charles driving over up to the foot of the Belmont hill. Hunted for the nest of a pair of Bontop's brails which have frequented the old haunt than all the spring but the birds had apparently gone and I could find no indications of a nest. From there struck up by the mill ponds and over into Waltham. Hunted for some time very carefully for the nest of a pair of Wreo Novoracensis that I had seen in a certain spot in May, and finally found it suspended pretty between the forks of a hazel and about 2 ft high. The 4 was sitting on 4 perfectly fresh eggs and