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1916.

62. Field Sparrow. First noted in Concord village (by Dexter) on
April 10 [April 10, 1916], at our Farm on the 17th [April 17, 1916]. Between the latter date & the 30th
I heard at least three different males singing in our orchard, or lane, or
in the Forsythia bushes in front of the house, each of the three having a song
unlike that of either of the others. Through May and June a male sang in
Howe's pasture (near the Northern base of Dakin's Hill) and another in our
Berry Pasture while in the latter two males were answering each other on
June 18 [June 18, 1916]. Thus there were certainly two & perhaps three birds of that sex
spending the breeding season in our immediate neighborhood - something
that has not happened there before for several years past. The bird frequenting
Howe's pasture sometimes shifted across the road to the open grown
sprinkled with young pines, just to the eastward of the Ritchie place, and
sang there for days in succession. Elsewhere I noted the species only
once - in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery on May 4 [May 4, 1916].

63. Junco. - Resident through the past winter at our Farm, in some
numbers, according to Burbank. Normally abundant at usual dates
during north-bound migration in April, the heaviest flights occurring
on the 4th [April 4, 1916], 5th [April 5, 1916], 8th [April 8, 1916], 12th [April 12, 1916], 20th [April 20, 1916] and 27th [April 27, 1916], when from thirty to fifty birds
were noted daily. Last seen (a single [female]) at the Farm on May 5 [May 5, 1916].
On the 20th [May 20, 1916] a mated pair were observed in Fairyland, on the steep
wooded hillside that slopes down to the eastern shore of the pond, by Faxon & Robbins.
Dexter found them together there two days later. Although no nest was discovered
it seems probable that they had one in that neighborhood. The pair that
reared a brood of young in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery last year were
not seen there this season although looked for carefully by Faxon, Robbins
& others.