Concord, Mass.
1899.
June
(b)
through the Marlboro and Estabrook woods, to Bedford,
and through many primitive lanes, wood roads and by ways
in the remotest parts of Carlisle and Acton. I also spent
several days at the Barrett farm and once or twice
visited the Ball's Hill woods. The only trip which I attempted
up river by canoe was frustrated by a heavy shower which
forced me to seek shelter under a bridge & to return in the
early evening without having accomplished my purpose.
  During the drives I gained some interesting knowledge
respecting the local distribution and comparative abundance
of such of the birds as can be seen or heard along country
roadsides and wood paths but on the whole the month
may be said to have been practically wasted. Of the flora
of the region I heard little that was new to me some
that Tephrosia occurs commonly but very locally at a 
station near Bedford Springs and at two places in Carlisle
- near the Hannah Green farm on the old Estabrook road
and some two miles beyond on the road to Chelmsford.
There are also two plants still lingering at the old station
in Casesar's woods and five at Ball's Hill near the cabin
as well as two on the roadside just north of Bensen's house.
[margin]Plants[/margin]
  After the of May I gave up keeping a field journal
but a brief record of each day's happening was posted
in the pocket diary which I started at the beginning of
1899 and practically all the birds which I saw, common as
well as rare, were noted in the condensed field list
for Eastern Massachusetts. From these two sources I have
compiled the above summary of general observations
as well as the notes which follow.
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