1891.
Nov. 4
Concord, Massachusetts.
Concord. - Clear and still, very cold during the 
night (thm. 15 [degrees] at sunrise), the river freezing in
the coves well out from the shore, but the mercury
rising rapidly as the sun came up.
  Early in the forenoon I drove to Ball's Hill with
Mr. Buttrick. We saw Tree Sparrows in several
places and in one sunny hollow a flock of
fully forty of them. There was also a little
party of Fox Sparrows - seven or eight of them - 
in oak scrub along a fence on the south side
of some woods.
   In a field at Ball's Hill I came upon a
Field Sparrow which had our wing broken close
to the body. From the way in which it held
the injured member I concluded that the
damage had been caused by accidental contact
with a wire fence or something of the kind
rather than by a gun shot wound
[margin]Field Sparrow[/margin]