Concord, Mass.
1911
March 20
 (No 3)
[March 20, 1911]

[male] Downy kills [female]

minutes her cries were piteous & incessant. At length
he left her and flew up into an elm where he clung
for a minute or two making what seemed to me a 
very unusual display of the red on his occiput. Then
of a sudden he swooped down on the [female] who had
meanwhile been cowering in the middle of a cluster of
lilac stems, on the snow. Dragging her forth from this
slight shelter into an open space he attacked her again,
this time with obvious fury, fairly raining a shower 
of blows on the back of her head. She seemed too
weak to make any further attempts to escape and her
cries, although continued, were so faint that we could 
only just hear them. I now realised for the first
time that he was inspired by the lust of killing
and not by sexual ardor. It was very hard to 
refrain from rushing out and driving him away