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Return of D. Coroneta at Berthia Aug 381
Serinus Auroraphilus last seen
Fetopistus migratorius
MASS. (Middlesex Co.)
Friday
Sept. 29
Clear and warm with S.W. wind. Off after breakfast alone this time. Drove up to the Parker lot when I tied & sat for game but started nothing whatsoever, So returned to the buggy and drove up to Ferris lane where I again tied the horse. Then I hunted for some time without starting anything but finally got up a grouse and shooting at it took out lots of feathers but failed to stop or at least could not find it. Shortly after "Dash" put up a woodcock that was lying under a brick bush on the very summit of a bar hill. He flushed out of range but I marked him down and starting him again killed him. Keeping across through the briches nearly to Hutchinson's beer I flushed two more grouse shooting at both & killing one which Dash found and retrieved. Returning to my buggy I started for Concord getting back at 12 M.
Saw Bar. Rufus 1, Pile erythropt. number Say, fusca numbers. Arrivals were dead Coroneta in numbers & Berthia Am. 1. Saw the last Serinus auroraphilus.
Saturday
Sept. 30
Clear in A.M. cloudy with occasional squalls in the afternoon. In forenoon drove down to the Wicked woods when I shot a Virio Solitarius from the buggy. It was a young & and was buzzing at intervals. In P.M. drove down to Cambridge Jim accompanying own as far as Waltham. On the edge of Walden woods saw a wild pigeon in the road which was so tame as to walk along the horses to fly or it began flying.