Bethel, Maine,
to Boston, Mass.
1902
January 9.
  Clear and mild with scarce a breath of wind.
  Started for home this morning by the 8.45 train. At the
Grand Trunk Railroad Station in Bethel I saw a flock of fully
twenty English Sparrows feeding on some grain that had been
scattered about and under one of the freight cars.
  In some young sprout woods near the railway station at
Oxford I noticed this morning a number of white oaks from 15
to 30 feet in height, some smaller black oaks, and a good
many low clusters of bear oak, all these species being readily
identified by the leaves of last season's growth with
which they were still more of less thickly covered. There
were also some rather extensive tracts of pitch pines in the
same neighborhood. The last-named tree extends commonly as
far to the westward as Norway. None of the oaks just
mentioned are known to occur at Bethel.
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