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Concord, Mass.
1898
June 5                  
  A rare day, cloudless with a moderate N.S.
wind which tempered the heat of the strong
June sun. The early morning and early evening was
very cool.
  Starting at 8.30 Purdie and I went out the
entire forenoon having a most intriguing and
altogether delightful walk. We visited Davis's Hill
Prescott's pines, Lawrence's pines and Mrs. Barrett's
woods. Later in the afternoon we went to 
the Blakeman woods and Holden's Hill.
  Although a Wilson's Black-cap has spent the past
five days in the rim thicket just east of the
cabin where he was still singing this morning I
think it is safe to assume that the migration 
is practically at an end and that all the other
birds that we found to-day were settled for
the breeding season. The most interesting were three
male Blackburnian Warblers in full song, two in
Lawrence's woods, the third in some hemlocks on
Mrs. Barrett's land. We also heard no less than
four Solitary Vireos, one in the pines on Benson's ridge,
another in the tall oaks behind Benson's house,
a third in Prescott's pines, and the fourth in 
Lawrence's woods. The Parula Warblers seem to have
deserted the last-named locality where they
were breeding in 1886-1887.
  Chipping Sparrows & Towhees are scarce in this
neighborhood. We heard only one of each to-day
& but one Indigo Bird. Tanagers & Grosbeaks are