Cambridge, Mass.
1899.                                                                                                                                                                         
July & Aug.         
  During these months I visited Cambridge nearly every week
usually spending a day and night but on several occasions
staying two or three days. The following notes are all that I
find in my diary which relate to birds seen during these visits.
July 1                 
  Three Red Crossbills flew over the garden this morning piping loudly.
July 2                 
  Young Robins, Yellow Warblers, Redstarts, Grosbeaks & Orioles in the
garden. The [male] Flicker "shouting" and what I took to be the [female] seen
to fly from the nest in the box.
July 3                 
  The Flicker shouting and a Grosbeak singing sotto voce in the garden
July 10              
   A Hummingbird in the garden.
July 21             
  Awaking at daybreak this morning I heard Crows cawing;
Gray Squirrels barking, a Flicker shouting and a Robin singing
in the lindens in front of the house. Later I found the garden
alive with Robins, Yellow Warblers, Redstarts, Red-eyed Vireos and 
Orioles, most of them being young birds. There are comparatively
few English Sparrows about the place this season.
  In the afternoon took a drive through [?] and the Willows
to Wellington lane returning by way of  Prospect Street. The country
was drought-stricken & the roads deep with dust. Heard from
Song Sparrows singing and saw a flock of fully thirty Orioles
accompanied by several Robins & Kingbirds in a cluster of 
oaks opposite western end of Prospect Street. Most of 
the Orioles were young birds.
  Found several plants of Actea [Actaea] rubra heavy with deep red fruit
on the banks of a brook near the western entrance to
Wellington Lane.
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