Concord, Mass.
1899.
June
(h)
  Circus hudsonius. - Two adult males seen during the month
one about two miles N.E. of Bedford on the 11th, the other
beating the fields near the Concord Poor farm on the 25th.
  Colinus virginianus.- a pair running in the road near
Heath's Bridge on the 8th, one calling near the Barrett farm
on the 15th and a [male] calling bob-white on the Keyes
 place on the 25th. A pair were also seen in Bedford on the 11th.
  Zenaidura macroura .- This has been the first year since
I settled at Ball's Hill when I have failed to hear the
solemn voice of the Carolina Dove in one or another part
of the neighboring woods. Gilbert saw a pair on April 15
& a single bird two days later flying past the cabin but
my only personal observation during the entire season was
confined to glypmses [sic] [glimpses] of a bird near Carlisle bridge on May 31.
On June 24 Mr. Dudley Pickmore told me that a pair 
of doves had been frequently seen during the past week 
in the woods on his estate in Bedford about a mile below
the bridge just mentioned.
  I attributed the disappearance of these attractive birds from
the Ball's Hill region where they bred so numerously a
few years ago to the presence there during the last two
or three seasons of one or more pairs of Cooper's Hawks.
I doubt if those Hawks often succeed in catching them
but they certainly frighten them away from the immediate
neighborhood of every piece of woods where they settle 
for the summer.
  Anus obscura.- One seen flying over the meadows opposite
the cabin on the 1st, and the same or another bird heard quacking that
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