Concord, Mass.
1905.
June 14
  For the past three evenings I have heard about
8 o'clock a sound that I cannot identify but that I
heard last year about this time in the same place
- the rather wet meadow just across the road from our
farm house. This sound is unlike any other that I
know although it suggests the scatter call of the Quail
and also a man whistling for a dog. Our dog Larry,
an Irish terrier, noticed it at once this evening as he
was lying on a rug in the parlor and rushed to the
open window with pricked ears growling a little. This, too,
despite the fact that the previous call was half drowned
in a medly of voices of the Garden Toad, Tree Toad
and Pickering's Hyla that came from the same marsh
The strange cry was a rather low quoi-quoi-quoi-
quoi-quoi (5 or 6 to 8 or 10 notes) & was repeated only
five or six times at long irregular intervals although
we heard it a dozen times or more on the 12th.
All three evenings were damp and still & on the
12th & 13th there had been heavy rains. These brought
out the Toads & Hylas in great numbers & caused
them to renew their early spring concerts with
full vigor. I suspect that the strange call must
come from some Bartrachian but the creature does
not utter it with the persistence of most
animals of this class. It is strange that I should
have heard it two years in the same place & each
year should have heard but one caller. I wonder
if he is not Abbott Thayer "ghost." His description
of the creature he heard at Monadnock is very like this.
Another "Mystery"
  Gilbert saw a Weasel in the garden carrying a Mole.