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Concord, 
1398. 
May 20. 
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Spent two hours or more immediately after breakfast ram- 
bling about in the woods on and behind Ball's Hill. " 
I found a Lincoln's Pinch in a thicket of alders and cornels 
surrounded by dense young white pines. It was very tame and 
fearless allowing me to approach within a few yards and I 
watched it for fifteen minutes or perhaps twenty. It spent 
the whole of this time on the ground rambling about and feed- 
ing among the fallen leaves which it tossed about with its 
bill but did not once attempt to remove by scratching with 
its feet. It was slower of movement and altogether much less 
alert and animated in appearance than a Song Sparrow and its 
gait was at all times a hoppin g one whereas the Song Sparrow 
often walks. It had much less huffy than usual and might have 
been easily mistaken for a small, dark Song Sparrow by a su- 
perficial observer. It occasionally paused a few moments to 
bask in the sun in little openings among the bushes. I did 
not hear it utter any sound. 
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