Thoreau writes in his journal:
Struck inland and passed over the west end of High Rock, through the cemetery, and over Pine Hill, where I heard a strange warbler, methought, a dark-colored, perhaps reddish-headed bird. Thence through East Saugus and Saugus to Cliftondale, I think in the southern part of Saugus . . . Saw at the Aquarium in Bromfield Street apparently brook minnows with the longitudinal dark lines bordered with light . . .