1892.
July 4
(No 2)
Concord, Massachusetts.
[margin]To Ball's Hill.[/margin]
Mass.
Concord. Setting a reefed sail I sped quickly down river
towards Ball's Hill. The high wind discouraged (or drowned)
the singing of birds and I heard very few except Song Sparrows,
Red-wings, and Bobolinks.
  At 3 P.M. I walked to Davis's Hill. As I was passing
under a rough, scraggy pitch pine which stands by the path
just beyond my brook and at the southern base of the hill
a Carolina Dove started from a branch directly over my head
and fluttered noisily and clumsily off through the trees.
Looking up I at once saw the nest which was of the usual
slight construction and placed on a horozontal[sic: horizontal] branch among
radiating dead twigs about 15 ft. from the main trunk and
10 ft. above the ground. I had to climb the tree to see into the
nest [delete]where I found that it[/delete] which contained  two eggs that looked
slightly incubated. There can be little doubt I think that
this is a second laying by the parents of the young bird
which I saw yesterday for the latter was in the same piece
of woods, in fact not 40 yds. from this nest, and there has
been but one pair of old Doves on this part of my land
this season. A ♂[male] cooed a few times near my cabin to-day.
[margin]Carolina Dove's
nest[/margin]
  Visiting the Red-eyed Vireo's nest I found it empty and
deserted but in no way torn or dismantled. I suppose the
Jays discovered and plundered it. I am sorry now that I
did not visit it yesterday. Its history in brief is as
follows:
  June 17 . Just finished and empty but bird sitting.
    "      18- 9.15 a.m. . One egg. Bird absent at first. Returned before I
                                   left nest & scolded but did not go on
    "       20- 2 P.M.       Three eggs, no bird on or near nest.
    "       21. 1.30 P.M. no bird, 4 P.M. bird sitting.- July 1- eggs very dark colored, ♂[male][delete][?][/delete] sitting
  July 2 -     4 P.M. Two eggs hatched- [delete]bird sitting (I think the ♂[male])[/delete]
    "    4 -     Nest empty & evidently plundered.
[margin]History of nest
of Red-eyed Vireo[/margin]