South Yarmouth, Mass.
1899.
Aug 11-15.
(No. 2)
  Directly in front of the Stone's house stands a large,
spreading willow tree under which, at the time of my visit,
was a wooden bench. As I was walking past this within
a yard or two in the twilight on the evening of the 14th
a Whippoorwill started, apparently from the seat of the bench,
and fluttered slowly off calling wrek six or eight times in quick
succession and opening and strutting its tail repeatedly
the white alternately flashing and disappearing in the dim 
light.
[margin]Whippoorwill[/margin]
 We found fresh tracks of a large Otter on a sandy beach
at Herring Pond and a farmer whom we met there told
me that these animals have become numerous of late
years in the region about South Yarmouth. He added that
they were seldom killed and that no-one had succeeded
in trapping any of them although the attempt had
been frequently made.
[margin]Otters[/margin]
  During a long drive after dark on the night of the
12th, I learned that here, as about Peterboro [Peterborough] N.H. [New Hampshire] Tree Crickets
(Acris grylle) are generally distributed throughout the woods
instead of restricted to cultivated grounds & special localities
as is usually the case in the Middlesex County, Mass.
Katy-dids are rather numerous in the South Yarmouth
woods but they are confined to certain localities there.
In the fields near the Stone's house as well as
elsewhere I heard at night the prolonged cicada
like notes of the large green Locust that is so 
common about Falmouth and to the southward of
New England.
[margin]Insect
sounds[/margin]
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