1893. 
July 20 
(No 4)     
  I heard no less than four Quail whistling  bob-white
this afternoon, one near Clamshell Hill, one at the 
cliffs, one at Martha's Point, and the fourth 
beyond C[?]. At least two of this number could 
not have been counted by me on the 14th. Hence there 
are at least six birds whistling this season between
Clamshell and Pantry Brook. I have heard none
along the Eastabrook road & none this month "down
river".
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  Shortly after sunset I saw a large flock of Swallows
going to roost in an extensive thicket of button bushes
just below Heath's Bridge. There were fully fifty birds, 
the majority Barn Swallows with perhaps a dozen
White-bellies and four or five Bank Swallows. They alighted
first on the tops of the bushes and gradually worked 
their way downward & under foliage by fluttering
from twig to twig a few inches at a time. Sometimes a 
dozen were beating their wings noisily among the leaves
at once] and there was much twittering & chattering &
petty little bickerings for the best places. All the while a 
good number of birds were flying about over the river
feeding but one by one they joined the throng among
the bushes and when I left all had alighted while
all but two or three had worked down out of sight.
At first dozens of brick red and snowy white breasts
gleamed in the strong light from the west but now
there was nothing to be seen but the masses of dark
foliage beneath which the host were safely sheltered.
During the whole time there were no feints, no sudden inrush, &
no panicy departures such as I have noted on former occasions.