Concord, Mass.
1911.
March 20
(No 6)
[March 20, 1911]

[male] Downy kills [female]

as they flitted about the suet while Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] had been
doing the same thing for some time before I came down
as he was preparing the table for our breakfast.
I am inclined to think that the female was the bird
which has nested for several years past in the
dead limb of the tall elm that shades the woodshed
at the east end of the house and that the male who
murdered her was not her mate. My reasons for
so thinking are (1) because she has been here so
constantly ever since the 12th and (2) because the
male was not seen about the place previous to yesterday.
Of course both surmises may be wrong. During previous
years the breeding pair have always seemed on good
terms with each other and have been accustomed to 
feed quite amicably at the suet, as far as I can
remember (but not both on it at once.)