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Concord, Mass.
1898.
May 19
(No 2)                     
  During my evening walk I also heard three
Carolina Rails singing. One of them was in the
meadow opposite (a little above) the cabin and
I believe it called without cessation the whole night 
long for whenever I was awake its clear, plaintive 
er-e came to my ears at short regular intervals.
It ceased at daybreak next morning a few minutes
after the Bittern began pumping.
  A Robin's nest by the side of the path behind
Ball's Hill had two eggs at about 10 A.M. on
the 17th. At 2 P.M. on the 18th there were four!
Hence the bird must have laid two within sixteen
[delete]found sixteen[/delete] hours. She is an unusually shy, nervous
Robin invariably leaving her eggs as soon as
we show ourselves anywhere within thirty or
forty yards. When the nest was only half-completed
she would make as great an outcry at our
approach as an ordinary Robin does when it has
young.
  A [female] Redstart was building to-day collecting
her materials from tent caterpillars not near 
the cabin.
  Rhodora & wild geranium in full bloom. Apple trees
past their prime but still very showy in
the distance.