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Concord, Mass.
1916
April 4
to
July 9

  Of those which formerly tenanted such woodland regularly and
not uncommonly the Wood Thrush, the Golden-winged Warbler and
the Yellow-throated Vireo have wholly, and the Rose-breasted
Grosbeak and Wood Pewee almost, ceased to reappear but
there are still Oven birds in plenty, a fair number of
Red-eyed Vireos and a few Scarlet Tanagers.
  Pine-frequenting birds, suck as the Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler], Black-throated
Green [Black-throated Green Warbler] and Pine Warbler and the Solitary Vireo, have not
been similarly banished but continue to be as numerously
represented as of yore, for the dense evergreen foliage of
their favorite trees is too unpalatable to forest caterpillars
of every kind to be much injured by any of these pests.
  Inasmuch as the river meadows were almost continuously,
and for the most part deeply, submerged throughout April
May and June they offered little congenial food and even
less shelter to the birds which ordinarily inhabit them