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Concord, Mass.
1916
April 4
to
July 9

  The Concord Tree Swallows probably suffered rather severely
from the snow storm of April 28 [April 28, 1916] for after it they
were decidedly less numerously represented than before and
only three pairs nested about our premises, in boxes that
ordinarily shelter at least twice as many.
  Starlings are said to have bred very commonly in and
about Concord village this season, especially in old apple
orchards. That at October Farm certainly failed to attract 
any of them but Mr. Howe reported two pairs seen entering
holes in the large trees that shade his house and
Mrs. Abbott Lawrence the finding, in one of her hollow
trees, of a nest with eggs which were permitted to
hatch although I counseled their destruction. From them,
without much doubt, came the brood of loud-clamouring
young that appeared later, with one of the parent birds,
in trees overspreading the roadside in front of our farm house.