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Concord, Mass.
Spring and early summer.
1913.

74. Wood Pewee.  Arrived May 22 [May 22, 1913] (Sleepy Hollow Cemetery). On the
24th [May 24, 1913] a bird appeared at the Farm and remained there up to at
least July 2 [July 2, 1913] haunting especially the big elms close about the
house and the oak grove behind the barn. Of his exquisitely
sweet and plaintive notes, given oftenest at morning and evening,
I never tired. If he had a mate and nest I never saw the
one nor found the other. Another bird who sang through the
season in Pulpit Rock woods doubtless nested there being seen 
repeatedly with his mate, with whom he seemed to be often
keeping up a family quarrel. There was a third singing male
at Holden's Hill who occasionally visited Ball's Hill. These were
all I noted this year.

75. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher.  On June 8 [June 8, 1913] and 9 [June 9, 1913] I heard the pee-e
call given many times and coming from the swampy woods just
to the south of Pulpit Rock. Two birds were heard on this same
late date (June 9) in 1907 [June 9, 1907], one in precisely this same place
which seems to be a favorite haunt for the species.

76. Least Flycatcher.  Arrived April 26 [April 26, 1913] (Concord Village). We had 
only one breeding pair at the Farm this year. Their first nest,
built in an apple tree just behind the house, was begun on
May 21 [May 21, 1913] and torn down not long after completion. Where the
birds nested a second time I do not know. They continued to
haunt the orchard through June. There were others scattered along
the roadside northward & one or two near W. Bedford [West Bedford] station.
They seem to be gradually diminishing in numbers in our neighborhood.

77.  Hummingbird.  Arrived May 19 [May 19, 1913] ([female] at Farm). After this I noted
a [male] on May 24 [May 24, 1913], [male] [female] May 31 [May 31, 1913], [female] June 8 [June 8, 1913] & 13 [June 13, 1913]. All these seen in
flower garden at Farm. Quite evidently the species failed to nest
anywhere near it this season for the first time since I have had the place.
I saw a bird at Hildreth's Corner on June 29 [June 29, 1913].