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Cambridge & Concord, Mass.
1898
June 27
  Clear and warm with almost no wind.
  To Birch Island in the forenoon. Heard a Hairy
Woodpecker in the oak woods where the Hypericum splendens
grows.
  Spent the early part of the afternoon in packing
and took the 4 P.M. train for Cambridge.
" [June] 29  To Concord by 12.50 train from Boston. Down to
Mrs. Barrett's and went over the farm with my
cousin, J. L. B., deciding finally to buy it. It adds
nearly ninety acres to my territory.
  In the Barrett orchard saw a Great-crested Flycatcher, the 
same bird, no doubt, that I noted on my last visit.
We also went to Ball's Hill. It was a still, hot
afternoon and the birds were not singing at all freely.
  In the main wood just below Mrs. Barrett's we
saw two Rabbits, both very large ones.