Cambridge, Mass.
1901.
June 27
(No 4)
  13. Kingbird. - One heard twittering.
  14. Phoebee. On the edge of the salt marsh where it
sweeps around the eastern base of the isolated hill
just north of the Cemetery I found a Phoebee
perched on a fence post from the top of which
it darted out every minute or two after
passing insects. It looked like a young bird and
no doubt had come from Mt. Auburn where the
Phoebees continue to breed under the bridge that
crosses the larger of the ornamental ponds.
  15. Flicker. One heard "shouting" and several seen flying about.
  After completing my examination of the Coolidge farm I
continued on into Cambridge Cemetery, first skirting it
by following the path that leads around its eastern and
southern confines and returning through the middle.
  Although more artificial and in most respects less attractive
than Mt. Auburn it contains many fine old trees and
the walk along the crest of the wooded ridge that
slopes steeply down to the salt marshes is one of
the most beautiful that remains in the whole Cambridge
region. The trees on this slope are chiefly oaks of
fairly large size and, as a rule, in vigorous condition.
There was a natural undergrowth beneath them
but for several years past the Cemetery people have cut
and burned the lesser growths every season destroying,
among other things, a rare Prunus known to occur
only at this station. Possibly it has not, as yet,
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