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Concord, Mass.
1898.
October 12
  Heavy rain last night & early this morning the 
sky clearing at about 10 A.M.
  Spent the day at the Barrett farm. The birch
thickets alive with small birds among which
Yellow rumped Warblers were the most numerous.
" 13
  A superb day cloudless and calm with brilliantly clear
air.
  Another day at the Barrett farm superintending
the men at work there. Took a number of
photographs of the old house & barn. Many small
birds about. A Partridge drumming in the birch
near the house late in the afternoon.
" 14
  Cloudy with strong N.E. wind.
  Still another day spent supervising the work at
the Barrett farm. Drove to the cabin for lunch.
While on my way back and just as I was descending
the slope beyond Bensen's a large flock of Juncos
accompanied by several White-throated Sparrows & a few
Yellow-rumps started from an asparagus bed and
flew into the thickets by the roadside. Among them
was an albino which I took to be a White-throated
Sparrow. It was very tame & most conspicuous in the
densest. I watched it a long time. It was wholly
snow white with a white bill. In the observe of all when
I could only judge of its identity by its swim & plunge.
[margin]Albino
Wh. thr. Sparrow[/margin]