Concord, Mass.
1899.                                                                                                                                                        
Nov. 1 - 11
(Also 21, 23,
& 26)
(d)    
  Passerella iliaca. - A solitary Fox Sparrow, scratching among
the leaves in a thicket of alder behind Ball's Hill on 
the 11th, was the only bird noted by me at Concord.
The migration last spring was also very light and I have
heard that the number of birds breeding
in Newfoundland was sadly reduced the past summer. All
this indicated that the species must have suffered very
severely in the South last winter (cf, Wayne's notes on the
destruction by cold & snow which he witnessed at Charleston
S. C. - Auk XVI pp 197-8.)
  Scolecophagus carolinus. - A solitary bird in the maples
on the river bank opposite Pad Island, on the morning
of the 9th. It was uttering the medley of jingling notes 
which seem to represent the song. This is the third
instance of the occurrence of this species in November which
I have noted at Concord.
  Branta canadensis - A flock of 21 birds which passed 
over Ball's Hill rather low down during the snow storm 
on the forenoon of the 11th was the only instance of
occurrence which came under my attention this
autumn but Mrs. Edward W. Emerson writes on that she,
her husband, and their two sons saw a flock of
fully 100 birds rise from the wooded reach of the
Assabet River directly in front of their house on the
morning of December 23rd & mounting high in air
pass on southward. Her sons thought that the birds had
spent the night either the river or in one of the
pools more its banks. The Geese made a great clamor
as they flew off.
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