135
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1898.
June 18
(No 3)
10. Chaetura pelasgica [sic] [pelagica]  One or two flying about at evening.
  The Warbling and Yellow-throated Vireos visit the garden 
every few days but neither species appears to be nesting
anywhere in the immediate neighborhood, although this
is the first year within my remembrance when they have
thus neglected us. Through April and May a Purple Finch
appeared to be established on the place and a Rose-breasted
Grosbeak sang in the juniper for nearly a week in the
latter part of May but neither has been heard here of late.
The Least Flycatcher is another species that is lacking
for the first time but I have heard one singing in 
the Wyman's willows on Sparks' Street. There is also
a Black-billed Cuckoo living not far off for I hear
his voice in the distance towards the Wyman's every few days.
[margin]Birds on 
the old
place[/margin]
  Mrs. Kittell tells me that there is a pair of
Meadow Larks in the fields between Huron Avenue
and Vassal Lane. I have not heard of any in this
favourite old haunt for the past ten or twelve years
but they have bred each season for the past
four or five years on the Tudor place a little beyond
the Fresh Pond crossing a locality never frequented 
by them in the days of my boyhood.
[margin]Meadow
larks return
to an old
& long abandoned
haunt[/margin]
  On June 6th A. Hathaway discovered a Killdeer Plover
in the big clay pit just east of the Maple Swamp.
It was seen there by Hathaway & Lothrop on the 7th
and by W. Dearn, Hathaway & Lothrop on the 8th
[margin]Killdeer
in Cambridge[/margin]