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Concord, Mass
1897.
Nov. 3                  
  Early morning cloudy as well as foggy and dead calm.
Later the wind started from the W. gradually increasing
in strength and slowly dispelling the fog and clouds.
The afternoon was perfectly clear and very warm and
pleasant. 
  Early this morning I heard a Snow Bunting give the
\chattering flight call a dozen times or more at short intervals
without once uttering the clear peer which almost invariably
follows the chatter closely. The bird (I think there was but
one) seemed to pass over Ball's Hill and go off over the
Great Meadows towards the southwest but I could not
get my eye on it. I think I heard a Snow Bunting
here nearly a week ago but was not sufficiently sure
at the time to make a note of it.
  Horned Larks and Titlarks were also flying about
over the meadows before the fog cleared this morning but
I could not tell how many there were of them. I saw 
at least three Titlarks, however.
  There must have been a number of Snipe for a    
gunman with a Golden settler spent nearly the whole
forenoon beating back & forth over the grounds and fired
at least a dozen or fifteen shots.
  A Partridge drummed at short, regular intervals for
more than an hour this morning (10 - 11 o'clock) near the 
crest of the high knoll in the Blakemore woods.
(I afterwards examined the place & found that his drumming
station is an old mossy stump under dense oaks.)