Oct. 7 Rained in torrents all last night & to day clearing up in P.M. Left the barn at 3.30 and struck up into the swamps. Started a snipe and 4 rail bagging them all in 5 shots. All the rails were P. Carolina and "Shot" pointed all but one in good flights. Saw 4 other snipe flying over high. Last week I shot Nesbitt bagged 7 snipe around pond holes in the fields. The first flight cock were killed out Concord on the 24th where J. C. Nibbin started ten birds. Snipe 1 - Rails 4. Met Robat & John Nesbitt this P.M. The former showed me a Gallus leige which he had shot; they usually come later & came earlier & I am inclined to consider this a bird that flew too far on the ground & has remained behind. Rail were seen in large numbers last week but all so far as I can learn were P.Carolina. W. A. Pardee took a walk Sunday the 3rd and noted D. coronata about, Agulus calandula Vermibus (one shot by O. Warren Sept. 29th) & Agulus Aliceae rural. I saw a flock of Red ferrugin in our yard on the 4th and saw another large flock in the swamps this evening. The mud birds are literally alive with shrews of every description. A fine Y. Y. Buteo Penn, was brought to me Sunday. It was shot on the Brooks Rd. in Belmont on the 2nd & 3rd. stomach & crop were stuffed with Cato's Am. nothing else.