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Concord, Mass.
1913.
Aug. 26
to
Nov. 13
(No 41)

  102. Zenaidura macroura. - A Dove seen flying low and
to the eastward past our farm house on October 3 [October 3, 1913]
furnished my sole autumnal record for this year.

  103. Bonasa umbellus. - Most of the sportsmen whom I
have questioned on the subject agree in thinking that Ruffed Grouse
have been unusually plentiful in the Concord Region during the
past autumn. Such is decidedly my impression regarding the
birds in our own covers where I have certainly seen them in
numbers greater than for several seasons past. They have been
noted oftenest in Birch Field, the Run and the Berry Pasture
sometimes to the number of eight or ten during a short walk.
More or less of them came regularly every evening just after
sunset, for weeks in succession, to the lane in front of the barn
to feast at first on Concord grapes, later on barberries - both
more than commonly abundant there. They were also beginning 
to bud the apple trees before I left the place. One bird that