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Concord, Mass. West 321(1 eg6s ' 
1S98< In a dr 7 pasture (near the Barrett woods where W. Deane 
May 18. and I were walking this morning) we started a Field Sparrow 
from her nest which was sunk in the ground under a hush and 
contained three eggs. 
May 22. The Field Sparrow was still sitting on 3 eggs in the 
neighboring pasture this morning (near the Barrett woods). 
June 5. The Field Sparrow's nest found May 18th in Mrs .Barrett ' s 
pasture had their young fully grown and feathered to-day. 
June 24. In the Barrett woods this morning I stumbled on a Field 
Sparrow's nest built precisely like a Chestnut-sided Warder's 
or Indigo Bird's - that is to say it was placed in the fork 
of a hazel just under the upper canopy of foliage and fully 
three feet above the ground. The nest contained four fresh 
eggs. 
Peterborough, New Hampshire. 
1090 # Quite as numerous here as at Belmont and Arlington, Mass. 
July 5 and decidedly more numerous than about Concord, Mass., fre- 
to 
Aug. 15. quenting chiefly the shrubbery along roadsides and old wails 
and neglected pastures growing up to pines, spruces, etc. 
Some of these Peterborough birds are remarkably fine singers. 
One at the bog near our house (on Ben Mere farm) frequently 
