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Concord, Mass.
1898.
May 7
  Early morning cloudy the sky clearing before 10 A.M. the
remainder of the day cloudless, [delete]and[/delete] nearly calm, and very warm;
altogether the pleasantest and most springlike day thus far. 
  A heavy flight of migrants arrived during the night. Soon
after breakfast I walked around Ball's Hill seeing two Wilson's
Thrushes and hearing a Maryland Yellow-throat and an Oven bird in full song. At
about 10 A.M. Will Bartlett called and reported seeing a
Cat-bird, four or five Nashville Warblers, at Concord. Later in the day I heard a Yellow Warbler
opposite Ball's Hill.
  Bartlett and I took a long walk in the latter part of the
forenoon. We heard a second Oven bird, a Chestnut-sided Warbler,
two Ruby-crowned Kinglets, seven or eight Black-throated Green
Warblers and a number of Yellow-rumps besides three or four
Yellow Palm Warblers. We saw a Nashville Warbler & heard
a Junco twittering. 
  Just after we had crossed Davis's Swamp and were entering
Prescott's pines following the old wood road a Carolina Dove
started from a dense white pine and flew slowly off pretending
to be partially disabled. We suspected a nest at once & 
soon discovered it on a stout horizontal branch three or four
feet out from the tree and about eight feet above the 
ground. Strange to say I have neither seen nor heard a
Dove in these woods before this spring although one
cooed there last year. The nest held two eggs which
looked dark as if slightly incubated.
  Scarce fifteen minutes later we found a Partridge's
nest with thirteen deep buff-colored eggs. It was in
Mrs. Barrett[']s woods, only a few rods back from the old