1902.
May 26
  Forenoon clear with strong, cool S.W. wind.
Afternoon cloudy with violent thunder showers just
before dark.
  Started off with John E. Thayer & his assistant
Mr. Harriman at 8 A.M. We drove directly to
the pansy farm on the road to Still River & tying the
horse descended the hillside to the meadows where Purdie
& I heard two Henslow's Sparrows last summer.
These meadows border a brook for three or four
hundred yards. They are full of springs & the ground
is broken into many little hillocks covered with
low blueberry bushes & carpeted with Spagnum mosses.
Between them & the road lie well-drained intervale
fields in English grass & clover but still covered in
places (especially in the hollows) with tufts of wiry
wild grasses.
  In the brook meadow proper we found a pair of
Henslows' Sparrows and in the intervale fields we heard
at least three different males singing. We spent the
greater part of the day looking for nests but without
success. Three times we flushed the female of the pair
nearly underfoot and within a few yards of the
same place among some of the hillocks just mentioned.
Thinking that she might have run on ahead of us on
leaving her nest we charged at full speed into the
place during our second & third visits but no nest
could we find when we finally got the bird on
wing. One of the other males was singing in the
middle of a large patch of clover. The male by the brook
usually perched in a bush when singing. All the males
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