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Concord, Mass.
1913.
Spring and early summer.

57 Swamp Sparrow.  Very scarce. A single [male] heard occasionally
near Ball's Hill - sometimes in the swamp at its rear, oftener
in the marsh across the river - from April 23 [April 23, 1913] to July 2 [July 2, 1913]
was the only bird I could find anywhere.

58 Fox Sparrow.  - March 22 - April 16. Uncommonly scarce.
In March I saw only one; in April less than twenty and
never more than three or four in any one day. The glorious
song was given only a few times within my hearing.

59 Towhee.  For the first time within my experience no Towhee
bred anywhere on our place. At the Farm I saw a [female] on April 27 [April 27, 1913],
heard a bird call two days later, and again on May 9 [May 9, 1913], and noted a
singing [male] on the 12th [May 12, 1913] and again on the 19th of May [May 19, 1913]. At Ball's Hill
I heard the call note on May 9 [May 9, 1913]. These were literally all the observations made.

60  Rose-breasted Grosbeak.  Much scarcer than formerly but perhaps
not less so than during the past few years. First bird noted
May 6 [May 6, 1913]. No obvious north-bound flight. A pair bred at the
Farm and another at Ball's Hill where the [male] was in full
rapturous song as late as July 2 & 3 - something unusual, I believe.
The birds at the Farm fed much on the ground in a field
in front of the house where Japanese millet had been sown
broadcast late in May, eating it, no doubt, although of this I
failed to make sure.

61 Indigo Bird.  Arrived May 12 [May 12, 1913] when a [male] appeared on the
ground under our window at the Farm and feasted on
millet & hemp seed scattered there. During the breeding season
there were at least 2 males singing at the Farm, one at Ritchie's 
place, one in Birch Field, one near Bensen's. Found a nest in hazel
brush on edge of woods at Ritchie's place. On June 27 [June 27, 1913] it held 4 young
about 1/2 grown.