Canton, Mass.
1893
July 10
(No 5)
  The Bowles Bros. took this season a Prairie Warbler's
nest in Canton which was built in a young white pine
[delete]sapling[/delete] about 3 ft. above the ground. The usual position
in this locality is in a hard wood sapling in sprout
land.
[margin]Nest of
Prairie Warbler[/margin]
  Quail suffered severely about Milton last winter &
but few survived. I heard one whistling near the
Hayward's July 9th.
[margin]Quail[/margin]
  Red-eyed Vireos are comparatively scarce everywhere this
summer. At Milton on the 9th & 10th I heard only
three or four in all.
[margin]Red eyed
Vireos[/margin]
  Late this afternoon Roland drove me to Houghton's Pond
where we spent about two hours sitting on the shore
& walking about through fields & woods. A Chat sang
a few times in some young sprout land across the pond.
A Rose-breasted Grosbeak was in full song in an oak.
A [female] Humming bird came about us poising among some
pitch pines & darting to & fro catching flying insects, for
her young, probably, for she finally darted off across
the pond to the woods on the further shore.
[margin]Yellow breasted
Chat[/margin]