Concord, Mass.
1905.
June.
Summer Residents of our Place.
  The following list includes only species which
I noted during the breeding season this year and
which I have good reasons for believing have bred in
or very near our place.
  1. Wood Thrush: - Two pairs, one in the Barrett Run,
the other in Davis Swamp.
  2. Wilson's Thrush: - These Thrushes have been unaccountably
scarce this season. I am sure of only two
breeding pairs, one in the Barrett Run, the
other in Davis Swamp. Occasionally a bird
has been seen at Ball's Hill, also.
  3. Robin: - Present in about the usual numbers.
There were at least four or five pairs nesting
close about the farm house, one or two pairs
on the Ritchie place, one pair in Birch Field
opening, two or three pairs at Ball's Hill.
  4. Catbird: - Commoner than last year. Two pairs at
Ball's Hill, one pair at Davis Hill, one pair 
at Ritchie place, two pairs at farm (one nesting
in Blueberry Pasture, the other at the rear of our
flower garden.
  5. Brown Thrushes: - Rather commoner than usual.
There were a pair at Pine Park, two pairs
on Bensen's bush grown knolls, one pair at
Green Field & a pair in the garden at our farm.
The last-named evidently nested very near our house. The male
sang regularly in the elms that shade it.