1892.
July 30
(No 2)[actually No 3]
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord. usually if not invariably from elevated perches
on the branches of the oaks but we did not once get
so much as a glympse[sic: glimpse] at either bird.
[margin]Whippoorwills√√[tick marks][/margin]
  The clucking was distinctly audible at 40 or 50 yds.
Mr. Hubbard thought at first that it came in between
the "whippoorwills" but he finally agreed with me that
usually it was uttered simultaneously with the first syllable.
There were occasional exceptions to this, however, for
sometimes it was unmistakeably given just before
the first syllable and once we both thought it was
repeated twice at the end of the last "whippoorwill".
Mrs. H.[Hubbard] thought that it sounded as if the bird tapped
his bill against a log!

  At one time as we were sitting very still, no one of
us having spoken for several minutes, some animal,
probably a Fox, approached through the swamp
making a good deal of rustling and cracking of
dry twigs but these sounds soon ceased.

  As we were passing back over the wooded ridge
a Screech Owl began wailing within fifty yards or
less on our left. It was probably perched on one
of the dead trees along the edge of the neighboring
sprout land. The locality is a mile or more from any farm.
[margin]Screech Owl.[/margin]

  Autumnal or Tree Crickets were singing in several
places along the Estabrook road after darkness set in
and there was loud and general z-ing and chirping
of the various nocturnal locusts and Ground Crickets.
This is evidently the exact period of change from
[margin]Tree Crickets.[/margin]