Zenaidura macroura. 
1892. 
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Aug. 26. 
Mass . 
Concord .- A Carolina Dove was cooing in the pines on Davis's 
Hill ar 5.30 P.M. I have not heard one before for more than two 
weeks (July 14). This bird was in really good voice and cooed 
at short intervals as long as I was in hearing. 
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Concord .- On Bensen's knoll, as I was walking past the smaller 
hollow following the cart path, I started a Carolina Dove from 
a small red cedar. She fluttered off slowly and clumsily like a 
very young bird. On looking in the cedar I found a nest built 
chiefly of dry straw and containing two eggs evidently far ad- 
vanced in incubation. 
Carolina 
Dove. 
Aug. 30 Concord .- Visited the Dove's nest at 4.15 P.M. Female parent 
sitting. I looked at her through my glass for a minute or more 
standing in plain sight on the opposite side of the hollow about 
30 yards off. After perhaps three minutes she flew while we 
were both perfectly still although we had been talking a little. 
She went directly off through the trees without pausing or flut- 
tering, her flight being swift and decided, the wings whistling 
as in ordinary occasions. Both eggs had hatched since my last 
visit. The young were apparently not over one day old and both 
were of the same size. Their eyes were tight closed, and their 
bodies and heads covered with straw colored hairy down. 
