 Concord, Mass.
1899.                                                                                                                      
June
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  Several pairs of Bobolinks spent the season in the fields
just across the road from the house but I think their
nests were all on Mr. Lawrence's land although I am
nearly sure that at least one pair nested in my meadow
last year.
[margin]Barrett farm[/margin]
  The Towhees were numerous and familiar coming
close about my door and singing for hours in the
thickets which fringe the storm walls along the road
just below the house as well as in the grass behind
the barn.
[margin]Towhees[/margin]
  As already noted a Henslow's Sparrow was in full,
persistent song on the afternoon of May 11th almost
within hearing of my house in the bushy brook meadow
on the Holden farm opposite Mrs. Ritche's but I
did not hear it there again although I passed the 
place frequently.
[margin]Henslow's
Sparrow.[/margin]
  On June 10th I discovered a cluster of small, brown
Bats clinging to underside of the roof of my shed. They
were huddled so closely together that it was difficult to
count them but I made the number to be 10. It
afterwards increased to 14 or 15 when four or five of the
animals were very small & apparently young. These Bats
regularly roosted in this shed through the season & early
autumn but they disappeared before the weather became
cold. They were always to be found at exactly the
same spot beneath which their rat-like excrement
formed a small mound on the board floor.
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