Concord, Massachusetts.
1892
June 4
Mass.
Concord - Clear &[and] warm with S.E. wind and gathering clouds
  in the late afternoon
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Ball's Hill[margin]
    Awake at daybreak, almost no birds singing. After
  sunrise heard Thrashers, Verios, Robins etc.
  At 9.15 a.m. found Haywood across the rim &[and]
  walked with him to the W.Bedford Station. A
  short-billed Marsh Wren singing in the brook meadow
  was near this station.
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Birds at
daybreak[/margin]
    After my companion had gone I walked down the
  Concord road to see Mrs. Morris about taking some
  young ?[pines] from his land. Saw a pair of Carolina
  Doves fly across the road towards the woods. Barn
  Swallows collecting straws by the roadside. Two [?]
  singing. Grass Finches in the fields but not a 
  single Bobolink.
    Returned to the house and spent the
  afternoon reading &[and] walking about in my woods.
  Sailed back to the Buttricks later in P.M. after
  tea talked down across the meadow &[and] the Minute
  Man bridge to the Manse. A Virginia Rail was
  calling cutta very steadily in the Mill Brook meadows.
  I found that it varied this call with almost every
  repetition. The following notes taken on the spot will
  give some idea of these variations:
[margin]  Virginia Rail [/margin]
  Cut, cut, cùtta, cùtta, cùtta, cùtta, cùtta (twice) 
  Cut, cut, cut, cùtta, cùtta, cùtta, cùtta, cùtta (once)
  Cut, cut, cut, cùtta, cùtta, cùtta, cùtta, cùtta, cut (twice) 
  Cut, cut, cut, cùtta,    "         "         "          "     cutta (once)
     "      "      "       "        "         "         "          "      cut (once)
     "      "      "                [no cuttas]                     (once)
     "      "      "   cut                                              (twice)
     "      "      "      "   cut                                           "



