1893
Oct. 27. 
(no. 2)                                
Concord, Mass.
were single birds although once I saw five of them together. 
I dined at the cabin and walked through the woods to Holden's
Hill in the forenoon, - to Davis's swamp in the afternoon. Met 
two flocks of Chickadees and a few Tree Sparrows and started one
Partridge. As I was crossing the large opening just  north of
Ball's Hill Swamp a Fox trotted out of the bushes into the path
not thirty yards from me. I stopped instantly and squeaked a 
little. He took a few steps towards me stopped, looked at me a
moment without apparent fear, then turned and trotted off along
the path through the swamp. As soon as he disappeared among the 
bushes I followed walking very fast but silently. When I reach-
ed the further side of the swamp I again saw him still trotting
on sedately across an opening. He was a large Fox of somewhat
peculiar coloring- a dull yellowish brown with very gray
about the head and back. I was struck by the crafty almost
sinister expression of his face when he looked towards me. From
the top of Bensen's Hill I saw a large water bird swimming about
near the lower end of Pad Island. As I watched it, it began div-
ing disappearing with all the grace and ease of a Greebe and re-
maining under water for a somewhat unusual length of time. It
was so far away that I could not identify it even by the aid of
my glass but a little later I went to the place in my canoe and 
the only bird I could find there was a Coot (Ferlica) which swam
into the reeds as I approached. Lower down (a little below