Journals, 1871-1919 (inclusive)
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324 1876. Monday May 4 Chatham Mall. The last Gullinjo trip. Arrival Veinica carating large flock Falco Peregrinus, 2 Clear and very warm in A.M. Cloudy with rain in P.M. Had breakfast early and went out on the meadows of the town. I shot (refined) pair of Apolites melodus saw several others. Marsh bird on beginning to come in numbers as I saw a dozen or more flocks of grapes (both species) a large flock of Veinica carating and several Gambette melanoleuca, Heard Red Wrens, Cestrus and a Paula Am. Spizella pusilla's very abundant as was an also crow blackbirds which are around the barns in large flocks, I saw two live Brant which he uses for decor. They were all shot last month and their broken wings were well healed. They became tame in a few days and are most beautiful birds. Their notes are a gabbly; quack almost like a duck but a little hooeese and a hiss like the domestic goose's. Their motions are all essentially goose like but they are more graceful birds than the larger species. They run very quickly on land and with perfect ease & grace and feed readily on corn and green grass. York! The stage at 12, the cars at Warrick at 2.15- and arrived in Boston at 6.15 P.M. Saw a single Falco Peregrinus on the marsh this morning. Dendroica coroniscus & Goodale, Wakefield, Mass. Three Drift were shot at Cambridge this morning by John Nesbitt.