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Lancaster & Concord, Mass.
1898.
June 8
  Clear and very warm with strong S.W. wind.
  I went to Lancaster to-day. Leaving the cabin
at 7 A.M. Gilbert and I paddled up river to
Nashawtuck Bridge where I landed and walked to
the station. Although the morning was cloudless and
calm the birds did not sing at all freely. We
heard and saw only eight Bobolinks.
  At Lancaster I took a drive of some seven miles
with C. and E.R.S. Meadow Larks were more
numerous than I have ever seen them elsewhere in
Massachusetts excepting on Cape Cod. The country
about Lancaster is well suited to them with its
broad, local grassy fields & meadows. Bobolinks were 
also common but not exceptionally so. I heard
Warbling Vireos & Purple Finches in the village.
[margin]Birds seen
at Lancaster,
Mass.[/margin]
  Returned to Concord in the later afternoon
and to Ball's Hill by train to W. Bedford.