Concord, Mass.
1900.
June 27
(No 2)
  As I was passing through a wood road behind
Ball's Hill I heard a Partridge making the puppy-like
whining cries which the old hen bird utters when
anxious about her young. A little further on I
heard the young calling on all sides of me in
the dense alder thickets and presently one about
as large as a Pigeon walked slowly & daintily
across the path. I cannot imagine what could
have disturbed & scattered them as none of
my men had been that way.
Ball's Hill
Partridge 
with young
  In a notebook which I used here last year
I find a leaf which evidently has never been
copied & on which occurs the following inscription
in pencil, doubtless made in the field:
"Young Partridges scattered calling feebly Zee-Zee-e
Old bird replies with a low Cror-Cror-Cror."
  On the same leaf is the following transcript
of the song of Coccyzus americanus: "Toc-toc-toc-
toc-toc-toc-toc-toc (all these notes hard, woodeny &
on the same key) kau, kau, kau. The notes of another
individual sounded more like tet-tet-tet-tet-tet-tet
tarr, tarr, tarr"
Notes of
Yellow-bill
Cuckoo.
  I crossed the river shortly before sunset
and rambled about for upwards of an hour
over Arnold's pasture. Birds were singing on every
side. These were a Robin, a Veery, a Thrasher with
a glorious voice & an unusually varied repertoire,
a Towhee (in full song), a Wood Pewee, an Oven bird,
a Redstart, a Chestnut-sided Warbler, a Maryland
Yellow-throat, a Black & White Creeper, a Song Sparrow
&, in the distance, 2 male Quail whistling bob-white.
41.