Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1899.
June 6
  Clear and very warm with S. wind. Then 94 [degrees] at 1 P.M.
  Spent most of the day in the garden when I saw or
heard Robins, a Yellow Warbler, Redstart, Yellow-throated Vireo,
Warbling Vireo, 2 Cedar Birds, a fine [male] Scarlet Tanager, a Chippy,
Orioles, a pair of Flickers (nesting in a box that I put up for
them last spring) [delete]and[/delete] a [female] Humming bird and a Yellow Billed Cuckoo.
[margin]Garden 
Birds[/margin]
  The Tanager appeared early in the afternoon in the top of a white
maple in the jungle where it sang a dozen times or more
before flying off. It is the first adult male that has ever visited our place
within my recollection although I heard one singing years ago
in the distance in the direction of the Kennedy's oaks on
Highland Street. (I saw a [female] or juv.[juvenile] [male] in the garden, Oct. 1, 1898).
[margin]Tanager visits
the garden[/margin]
  Just before noon Mrs. Kettell who was sitting in the jungle
watching the birds saw a Gray Squirrel carry several young
from a nest box in one of the Apple trees near the north gate
towards the lindens taking only one young at each trip and
holding it lightly in its mouth. I saw it take what was
probably the last of the brood. It passed very near me
as it ran over the ground under the trees. The young Squirrel
appeared to be nearly naked and scarce larger than a
Field Mouse. I have little doubt that the extreme heat
prompted the animal to remove its young from the close,
stifling box to one of the well ventilated nests of twigs
and leaves which the Squirrels have built in the
upper branches of the lindens.
[margin]Gray Squirrel
carrying young
in its mouth[/margin]
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