Concord, Mass.
1898
May 1                
  A beautiful day much warmer than yesterday
and with less strong wind although from the
same direction (N. W.).
  Red-wings, Song Sparrows, Robins and a Pine
Warbler singing near the cabin at sunrise.
Just after breakfast a Solitary Vireo in full 
song near the east of Ball's Hill and a Ruby-
crowned Kinglet chattering and singing among 
the dense pines just behind this hill. I was
struck by the close resemblance between the
chatter and that which the Solitary Vireo
utters when its nest is approached. Later in 
the day we heard another Kinglet in full
song on Bedford swamp.
  At 8.30 a.m. we started downriver in 
the old Butterick boat paddling, poling, and
rowing by turns, hugging the shore of the 
flooded marshes closely for the water is now
as high as it was the middle of last March.
We saw but few birds until we reached
Lawrence's big woods where on landing we
found a mixed flock Yellow rumps & Yellow
Palm Warblers flitting about among the
oaks and pines darting out after flying insects 
& singing freely, the dry, chattering notes of the
Palm Warblers blending with much sweeter
ones of the Yellow-rumps. The song of the other
species possesses the same dreamy quality as those 
D. dominica  which, indeed, it strikingingly resembles