1893 
Nov. 11                                             
Concord, Mass.
  Clear, calm, and for the season, very warm.
   Went to Concord this morning by the 9.23 train
C. and E.R.S. accompanying me. After laying in a 
stock of provisions in the village we were drive to
Ball's Hill where we dined together in the cabin. E.R.S.
returned to Cambridge by an afternoon train but C. spent
the night with me.
  After dinner I walked for an hour or more visiting
Holden's Hill and Bensen's Hill. Started a Partridge among
pines and saw a flock of Chickadees and another of
Tree Sparrows. The last were among bushes on the river bank
and and every few minutes one or more of them would sing
nearly as well as in spring.
  From Bensen's Hill we spied a Coot (Fulica) swimming
about in the river at the lower end of Pad Island, its white 
bill and lateral under tail covets showing plainly although
it was three or four hundred yards away. As we were
watching it Evan's steam launch appeared and when it
reached Pad Island three shots were fired by someone on 
the bows. We found at first that our Coot was the victim
but through my glass I distinctly made out the bird
which one of the men lifted from the water to be a 
Pied-billed Greebe.