Zenaidura macroura 
1892. Mass . 
Sept. I. Concord .- Visiting the Dove’s nest on Bensen's Knoll at 3P.M. 
(NO. 2) I. found the mother bird sitting. She flew quietly off when I 
was thirty yards or more from the tree. The young birds have 
doubled in size since I saw them last but their eyes are not yet 
opened and their general appearance has in no way changed. Like 
the young in the nest by the brook south of Davis’s Hill they 
sit perfectly motionless. 
Sept. 5. The Dove was sitting on her nest in the red cedar as I passed 
(NO. 2) the place early in the forenoon but I did not disturb her. 
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Sept. 5. After lunch I heard voices on Bensen's Knoll and on investiga- 
ting found eight or ten of my Concord neighbors preparing to 
lunch under a pine with their horse tied near by and a nervous 
Irish setter galloping about. Not thirty yards away and in 
plain sight of this merry and very noisy party the Carolina Dove 
was sitting quietly on her nest in the cedar. 
Sept. 6. The Dove was on her nest in the cedar at 5 P.M. and permitted 
us to wall; just along the cart path without flying 
Sept. 9 I watched the Dove’s nest in the cedar for more than an hour 
(NO. 4) ( 3-4 P.M.) lying concealed among some pines about forty yards 
off but neither of the old birds came near it. A Red-shouldered 
Hawk (a young male very like the one seen on the river this morn* 
