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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.