Opornis agilis on Concord 377 ASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1876. Tuesday Sept. 19 Came down from Concord Friday Sept. 11th to make preparations for a longe hunt then. This afternoon drove up Concord in my bussy taking Smuggle again and leaving my trunk to be sent up by Express. Arrived in the town at 6.30 P.M. meeting Jim on his way from the depot and I was soon quartered comfortably in his room in the court house. 20 Cloudy all day with occasional drizling rain. Drove down to Halls in the forenoon and hunted on a good deal of ground, meeting W. Buttrick near the turnpike, and hunting in company with him. His dog put up four woodcock in all of which I killed one that had been flown across the road and which I started away rather thick briches. Smuggle had no chance to point anything. He troubles me chiefly by his timidity in the cover as it is almost impossible to get him to range more than a few yards away from me. Woodcock 1 21 Cloudy with frequent rains, in spite of which however I drove down to Halls in the forenoon) and killed a very fine large cock, starting two in all. The one shot I first started among briches & hazel and drove it down into a swamp when I put it up again and by a very hard snap shot killed it. Saw and shot at an Opornis agilis. It rose from the ground among Oak aspens on a dry hillside Woodcock 1