312 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1876. Tuesday April 25 Cloudy and very disagreeable with E. wind. After breakfast Charlie drove me up to the Warren swm where I hunted hard for a woodcock nest with shot. Flushed a J cock within 6 ft. of the spot when I took my nest last year but did not succeed in finding either the C or nest though I doubt not that it was there somewhere. Shot worked very finely making the excellent record of 8 points on 9 birds and 4 of them grown. Started also a bag of 4 quail and got points on them after they scattered. Saw a few juncos and a moderate number of D. palamos et coronata. Wednesday April 26 Cloudy and chilly with E. wind. Took the 8.40 Watr, car and got off at Frayer's to visit his owl nest with him but found he had gone already so struck over to the nest and examined it carefully. The C was sitting on 2 eggs Sat. but 4 (as I afterwards heard) found the whole affair cleaned out this morning. The hole was a natural opening when a limb had rotted out, staged afterwards excavated by a Colaptes which raised a brood of young thrush in 1874. Last year 4 found a Scops with 3 young in the hole & left them untouched. The cavity was of the usual interior shape & descended 12 in. The bottom was lined with feathers all that I could plainly see (than of the robin), Windmills