MIDDLESEX CO., MASS. 15 MASS (Middlesex Co.) 1874. Oct. 10 Cloudy & warm most of the day. Spent the afternoon in town. B. Dean went up on the madows this morning but saw no anifs. Read Junco Pagusalis this arming. Sunday Oct. 11 Chas & a lovely Autumn day, with S. winds In forewoood took a drive through Warely up into the willows and back on the hill by way of Prospect St. Saw Juncoes in numbers, on a large flock of D. striata and many straggler, a few Poecetes garminnus and numbers of robins. Saw also [illegible] Cirus Hudson. & a very fine Batis borahis sitting on a locust tree near the road. I forgot to note a flock of 10 Amphilis cedronum which I saw in the dencrofs on the 9th inst. Oct. 13 Cloudy & cold. Took the 2.15 train for Concord yesterday and spent the night at the Frenchs. This morning Dan & I took a row up N. bank without a gun. A short distance above Egg Folk we came suddenly upon a Green coffins and almost at the same instant a brace of wood duck (on a magnificent drake) came rustling down the steep bank and launching into the water but near the camp watching us. The next moment all three took wing, two of them keeping on up river while the wood