Concord, Mass.
1899.                                                                                                                                                                
Nov. 1 - 11
(also 21, 23 
& 26) 
(a)
  I was at Concord during this period living in the
cabin at Ball's Hill spending much of my time in the
woods and usually walking to & from the farm daily.
After returning to Cambridge I visited Concord (for the day       
merely) on the 21st, 23rd and 26th. The following observations
made there are the only ones which merit detailed notice: -
  Parus stricapullus - Chickadees are comparatively scarce in
my woods this autumn and the flocks met with were
unusually small most of them containing only from four to
six birds each although two flocks of eight or ten birds each
were seen on the 21st and one of eight on the 23rd.
  Pinicola canadensis - On the 23rd I heard a Pine Grosbeak
at the Barrett farm. It was evidently flying for when I 
whistled an imitation o its call it appeared and 
circled about me apparently coming very close at one time
although I did not succeed in getting a sight at it.
Early in December (on the 2nd I think) Mr. B[?]n met
met with a small flock of Pine Grosbeaks at Cohasset & shot
two or three of them.
  Acanthis linnia - On the 6th, 8th, 9th & 11th I heard the
flight calls of Redpolls at Ball's Hill, on each occasion in
the early morning. On the morning of the 7th a flock of four
birds alighted near me for a moment in the top of
a gray birch. As none of our other local observers met
with this species during the previous autumn I consider
that the flight which I noted at Concord must have 
been inconsiderable & of short duration (Four or five Redpolls
were seen, Jan 21, 1900 at Ipswitch, Mass. by D. C. W. Townsend &
Dr. Jos. Goodale. They shot one which proved to be typical linaria)
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