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Concord, Mass.
1898.
Nov. 3-23
  During this period it did not seem worth the
while to keep up my journal for I saw very few 
birds and my daily walks were singularly barren
of interesting experiences. These walks were mostly to
and from the Barrett place where I have had to
spend the greatest part of my time superintending the
work of repairing the old house and barn. Ordinarily
I left the cabin at about 8 o'clock in the
morning and got back to it a little before dark.
Sometimes I went and returned all the way by
land oftener I would go by canoe as far
as Dakin's or Davis's Hill. I varied the land
routes as much as possible paying but little attention
to the established paths but pushing through the
most tangled thickets in the hope of finding something
new. I did discover two plants not hitherto found 
in my woods viz Arctostaphylos uva -ursi under
the Prescott pines and Chimaphila maculata in two
places - on the Barrett farm behind the old barn
& in the Prescott woods near the road to the green field.
But of birds I saw almost none, even of the
common kinds. A few chickadees daily, a Jay or
a Crow every other day, a Brown Creeper, or a Kinglet now and then,
Tree Sparrows in small flocks occasionally & once 
or twice a few Fox sparrows Juncos or Goldfinches are
about all that I can recall now excepting Partridges
which I rarely failed to see each day. There were
also a few Pine Linnets about for I repeatedly heard
their call notes, especially in the early morning.
  Apparently the migrants all passed south before the 12th
but on the morning of the 21st there were indications