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Concord, Mass.
1897.
June 22.
turned and in stumbling flight disappeared up the slope.
  After lunching in the cabin we took a tramp for two hours
or more over the place and found almost all the trees and 
shrubs that had been set out doing well. As we were walking
along, two Mourning Doves flew over us at different times to -
ward the river. We had seen a pair in the morning flying over 
our boat. We visited the White Pine where a pair were nesting
in May. I climbed up to the nest and there seemed every in -
dication that the young had flown.
[margin]Zenaidura
macroura[/margin]
  As we were returning to the cabin through the woods we
heard the cry of the Hairy Woodpecker. We did not succeed in
seeing him for he soon uttered a rattling cry and flew off
through the dense foliage.
[margin]Dryobates
villosus[/margin]
  Though we did not see many birds, we heard a good many.
The Chestnut-sided Warblers were singing at every step, the
Black-throated Green was uttering his drowsy notes in the
evergreens, and the Pine Warblers were trilling among the
Pines. Almost all the common birds that frequent the place
were about in varying numbers.
  We were very near the cabin in the path between the cabin
and the open meadow, when we saw before us some twenty feet
a Star-nosed Mole. It was a most unusual sight to see one of 
these creatures in the broad sunlight, running about scratch -
ing and rooting in the ground. We watched him for a while
[margin]Condylura
cristata[/margin]