Anthony Ludicramus 387 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1876. (Oct. 12.) The buggy B. Started then woodcock I bagged two of them. Saw four pintails all along old flow walls. After dinner I got Richardson's bick canoe and taking Miss Fuller & Miss Shettell started up the Concord river and paddled so far up as Fairhaven bay. Returning to the foot of the hill I walked up to the cliffs with Miss F. The afternoon was very lovely and the view from the cliffs superb. On the way back saw an immense flock of tit larks flying over the meadows. Saw also a bittern, two Ardea herodias, a Pandion, and just at sunset a snipe which rose near the river bank and flew over the fence. Friday Oct. 13 Clear and a warm lovely day. Accepted an invitation to a picnic party on the river and starting at 12 M. with Miss Fuller we joined the others at "the Hemlocks" where we had dinner. Came back in the afternoon getting home at 4. Getting my horse harnessed I drove over to the bridge below Fairhaven bay, and returned in time to meet the 5.20 train at Concord expecting to get Jim & take a short drive but found he had not come up, so came back to the stable. Saw a bittern sitting within a few yards of the road near Mrs Hubbad's farm. It sat as usual with its bill pointing up nearly perpendicular into the air.