82
Concord, Mass.
1913.
Aug. 26 
to 
Nov.13 
(No 33)

81. Tyrannus tyrannus. - Present almost daily at the Farm up
to September 11 [September 11, 1913] haunting the top of the big elms &
oaks near the house in couples or little family groups
one of which (on the 5th [September 5, 1913]) contained five birds, another
(on the 8th [September 8, 1913]) four of which two were young apparently
fully grown yet fed almost every other minute by
the two parent birds with elder berries. These were
obtained from the large bush growing by the wall in
front of the house. Hovering within a few inches
of the cymes of ripe fruit the bird would pluck
only a single berry at a time and at once
fly with it in his bill to young perched in
the elm above

82. Myiarchus crinitus. - Apparently wholly absent from the the farm
but a bird was heard calling on Pine Hill
(August 27 [August 27, 1913]) and another (apparently adult)
closely viewed in Prescott's farms (September 6 [September 6, 1913])

83. Sayornis Phoebe. Of Phoebes I saw much less than
usual in autumn and in fact surprisingly little
my only records being of single birds noted
respectively at the farm on August 30 [August 30, 1913] & 31 [August 31, 1913]
and September 9 [September 9, 1913], and on the Ritchie place on
September 17 [September 17, 1913] & 24 [September 24, 1913]. The song was not once heard

84. Contopus virens. - A bird singing fairly well in Sleepy Hollow
cemetery on August 28 [August 28, 1913] & 29 [August 29, 1913]; a silent bird at the farm
in our dooryard elm on September 4 [September 4, 1913]; another singing
freely (& at times the full spring song with all its variations
and modulations) in this same elm on September 6 [September 6, 1913];
one singing feebly & listlessly there on the 7th [September 7, 1913]. These
were all I noted.