Concord, 
1398. 
June 9. 
Icteria vire ns. 
Mass. My first record for Concord. 
Spent the forenoon on the meadow shore opposite Ball's 
Hill."”’" 1 1 heard the first Chat that I have ever met with in 
Concord. It sang two or three times very near me in oak scrub 
(sprout oaks of two years’ growth) near the roadway that comes 
down to the meadow from the Kevins farm. I think the bird, 
if established there, must be nesting on the other side of 
the pasture where, along a rail fence, stretches a thicket of 
green briar that would do credit to southern Connecticut or 
the Middle States. Arnold says that he drove a cow into this 
thicket last year and that she was absolutely unable to force 
her way through it. 
