1891
May 31
(No 2)
Mass.
North Truro. - settle, if possible, the respective sexes
of the birds but the attempt proved a complete
failure. The "trios" flew wide of us as a rule and
only two shots were fired and one bird killed.
  I found and took a Spotted Sandpiper's 
nest with three beautiful eggs. It was under a
tuft of beach-grass at the foot of the cliff
and was betrayed by the bird which rose
about 20 yds. from me directly from the nest.
  Immediately after dinner we started for our
final destination, Mr. Warren W. Small's farm near
the Eel Pond where Miller found the Ruddy
Ducks & Gallinules last year. The road led
through the village of N. Truro in the very 
middle of which in a cat-tail swamp bordering
a narrow pond three sets of Bitterns' eggs were
taken by the boys last week, as our driver
informed us. He also told us that Crow Blackbirds
mated frequently among the cat-tails with the
Red-wings, a statement which I doubted at the
time but which was shortly confirmed.
  After passing the village we climbed and
descended a succession of long slopes with
narrow valleys between, most of the country being
open, sandy pasture lands with one extension
tract of pitch-pines. On the crests and upper
slopes of the ridges these were seldom more
than eight or ten feet high but in the hollows
they often attained a height of fifteen to twenty
five feet. They stood in fairly regular rows all
having been originally planted in furrows.