1892
June 11
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Cambridge to Concord. Clear & warm with strong W. wind.
  I left Cambridge at 2.30 P.M. and reached Concord
at 5.30, taking my usual route as far as the
Lyman place, then diverging to leave Mrs. Almy at
the Fitchburg station in Waltham, returning through
the [?] [?] settlement, following the winding
back road nearly to Lincoln then crossing to the 
turnpike and thence by the last named road
to Concord.
  Near the Trickey place in Waltham, in the heart
of the worm devastated orchard[delete]s[/delete] country I heard
an Orchard Oriole sing once in an elm beneath
which I was passing. I at once got out of the
buggy and presently saw the bird a very plain-
colored "immature" male with olive brown wings & 
tail and only a small patch of black on the throat.
It did not sing again & finally started on a
long flight over the open fields.
[margin]Orchard Oriole
in Waltham[/margin]
  In Lincoln I heard an occasional Tanager or Indigo
Bird besides Grass Finches, Field Sparrows & most
of the common birds but not a single Bobolink
the entire way from Cambridge to Concord.