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follow well beaten paths and to revisit year after year the scenes and 

 localities already endeared to him by familiarity and association. 

 This explains in part why he spent so much time in Concord and 

 why he revisited Umbagog for so many successive years. Because 

 of this habit he was enabled to gather an unparalleled amount of 

 data on the birds of these respective regions, and it is doubtful if 

 the birds of any single locality elsewhere have been so intensively 

 studied as those of Concord and of Umbagog Lake by Brewster. 

 His plans included the publication of several volumes based on 

 these notes. Fortunately his notes and manuscripts were be- 

 queathed to Harvard University, for this justifies the belief that, 

 not. only will his ' Birds of Umbagog Lake' be published, the first 

 volume of which was left by him practically completed, but that 

 all his voluminous notes made in Cambridge, Concord and else- 

 where will also be printed, so far as this can be done. And what 

 more acceptable and fitting monument than this could be erected to 

 commemorate his life's long and fruitful activity in the field of 

 ornithology that he loved so well? 



While thus by preference Brewster cultivated near-by fields, 

 nor cared greatly to penetrate remote districts or the untrodden 

 wilderness, he was by no means content, to stay wholly within the 

 limits of New England, much as he loved his native soil. On the 

 contrary he made several journeys far afield and usually in com- 

 pany with one or more friends. Thus he made three trips to 

 England: in 1891, 1909 and 1911, and one to the continent in 1897. 

 He visited Scotland more than once, and spent some time there 

 with Harvie-Brown, to whom he was much attached. Most of 

 the time abroad, however, was spent in England, where he devoted 

 much attention to outdoor observations and to getting acquainted 

 with English birds, which he had hitherto met only in books, and 

 in listening to their songs and studying their habits. 



He was greatly pleased with England, and his visits there, as he 

 said, were much like going home after a long absence. Apparently 

 in England he never felt like a stranger in a strange land. He 

 specially admired its broad estates, its well kept roads and hedges, 

 and its general air of thrift and tidiness. He was enthusiastic also 

 over the English character and found the men cordial, hospitable 

 and lovable. 



