1892 
Mass 
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! July 14. 
Concord .- The chief object of my visit to Ball's Hill to-day Dove’s 
was to see how the Carolina 1 Dove’s nest was progressing. When nest-. 
I reached it at about 4 P. M. the female was sitting her head 
turned in a direction just opposite to that on my last visit 
and lowered so that the throat rested on the rim of the nest, 
the crown being about on a level with the bach. This made her 
very much less conspicuous than on the former occasion. The 
change of attitude was due perhaps to the presence of some Jays 
which were uttering various low choking and gasping sounds 
in the trees overhead and whose keen eyes the Dove may well 
have wished to elude. I stopped directly under the nest, my 
head not more than four feet below it. For a moment the Dove 
did not so much as wink; then she suddenly started and flutter- 
ing clumsily and noisily through some dense foliage hitting 
against dead twigs and plunging through bunches of leaves, de- 
scended in a half circle to the ground where, in the middle of 
a little opening within 15 yards of where I was standing, she 
rolled over and over and spun around and around beating her 
wings like a Partridge in its death flurry and making a pre- 
cisely similar sound. A Thrasher, attracted by the commotion 
darted through the undergrowth and alighting within six inches 
of the Dove regarded her with evident wonder and concern and a 
Flicker came into a tree overhead and peeped curiously down 
through the leaves uttering a low worr-r-r-rpo of inquiry or 
sympathy. After grovelling thus for a minute or more the Dove 
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