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Concord, Mass.
1913. 
Aug. 26 
to 
Nov.13 
(No 27)

men had dropped there a few days before. That they had settled in 
or under its shelter for the night can scarcely be open to doubt.
On November 7 [November 7, 1913] and again on the 8th [November 8, 1913], I heard the trilling song 
given repeatedly but rather feebly.

66. Melospiza melodia. - Present in almost if not quite normal 
autumnal numbers. At the Farm from 4 to 8 birds 
were always to be found about thickets and [?]
near the house up to about the 5th of October [October 5, 1913] and 
one or two continued to linger there almost through 
that month, the last being noted on the 29th [October 29, 1913]. I 
heard young singing feebly and broken almost daily 
and adults in full song on September 12 [September 12, 1913], 19 [September 19, 1913], 20 [September 20, 1913], 21 [September 21, 1913],
 22 [September 22, 1913], and 28 [September 28, 1913] and on October 1 [October 1, 1913], 5 [October 5, 1913], 8 [October 8, 1913], 9 [October 9, 1913], 13 [October 13, 1913] and 29 [October 29, 1913].

67. Melospiza Georgiana. - Being seldom within sight or sound of 
the river meadows this autumn I had but few 
opportunities of encountering the Swamp Sparrow and 
indeed noted it on three occasions, only September 15 [September 15, 1913], 
21 [September 21, 1913] and 27 [September 27, 1913] - at Ball's Hill. A bird heard there
on the last named date [September 27, 1913] gave a full song once
about sunset. 

68. Melospiza lincolni. - Late in the afternoon of September 24 [September 24, 1913]
- a day memorable for the great number and variety of 
migrating warblers that it brought - Mr. S.O. Dexter [Smith Owen Dexter] & I 
found two Lincoln's sparrows in our Berry Pasture. At 
first they in a dense swampy alder thicket where
one as closely viewed in a low bush, the other on 
a stone wall. Later - about sunset - they appeared 
together on the bare muddy shore of our little pond