Cambridge, Mass.
1902.
July 
(No 5)
Garden Birds
  21. (Chaetura pelagica) five together, on one occasion (this afternoon
of the 28th) in a flock containing fully thirty birds. I have
seen no Swifts descend into chimneys in our neighborhood
for several seasons past and am inclined to think that
the birds above mentioned came from more or less distant
localities mostly to feed over the city.
  22. Dryobates pubescens. A female seen in the Garden on the 3rd
and another on the 7th. A bird heard there on the 30th
Where, by the way, do these July Downies come from?
  23. Colaptes auratus. - One heard "shouting" on the 4th, 5th
7th, 10th 28th 30th and 31st. One seen on the 7th & 8th A pair
built a nest in the dead top of the tall apple tree near
the gate on Brewster Street but if they reared their young the 
latter were never seen by us. The nest was begun as early as
March 28 and the birds were seen at or near it through April.
  24. Coccyzus americanus. - The long call (or succession of calls)
on the 2nd 5th 7th 8th 9th and 19th the cooing on the
10th 26th 30th and 31st. 
  25. Coccyzus erythropthalmus. The prolonged call heard on 2nd & 19th.
At about ten o'clock on the night
Walter Dean heard a bird cooing continuously for
an unusual length of time. Sometime after it began he
began to count the repititions of the note making no less
than 85. Three coos ie coo-coo-coo were given at each repetition. C. erythropthalmus
  26. Megascops asio. - July 28, 1 in full song evening; July 29, 1 in full song (9 P.M.); July 30, 1 in full song (before daybreak); (July 31, 1 in full song 7 P.M. at Mrs. Scudders Buckingham Street)
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