1892
Aug 6-11
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Cambridge & Boston.
      I went to Cambridge on the morning of the
6th and thence to Boston where I stayed (with C.) until
the 11th. On the 7th I heard a Yellow-billed Cuckoo sing in
my garden at Cambridge. Night-hawks were flying and
paap ing over the "Back bay" district in Boston on the evenings
of the 6th and 10th. I saw nothing else (except English Sparrows)
during this period. The weather was clear & intensely hot.
[margin]Yellow b.[billed] Cuckoo
Night Hawks
in Boston[/margin]

[margin]Aug.11[/margin]Concord.- Returning to the Buttricks this evening I found
that during my absence the birds had nearly entirely
ceased singing. Indeed the only species still in full
song were Song and Chipping Sparrows. Robins, Green Finches,
and Meadow Larks had become almost wholly or quite
silent in the interim.
[margin]Close of the
period of
bird song[/margin]

  Red-wing Black birds and Bobolinks in large numbers are
now resorting to Mr. Keyes's field opposite the house where
they seem to find some attraction among the clover & grass
which has sprung up since the hay was harvested.
[margin]Red-wings &
Bobolinks[/margin]