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June . 
Zeriaidura macroura . 
rd, Mass. Nest and eggs. 
. As Bartlett and I were entering Prescott's pines follow- 
. ing the old wood road a Carolina Dove started from a dense 
white pine and flew slowly off pretending to he partially dis- 
abled. We suspected a nest at once and soon discovered it on 
o. stout horizontal branch three or four feet out from the tree 
and about eight -feet from the ground. Strange to say I have 
neither seen nor heard a Dove in these woods before this 
spring although one cooed there last year. The nest held two 
eggs which looked dark as if slightly incubated. 
. Scarcity dn Concord, Mass. 
This has been the first year since I settled at Ball's 
Hill when I have failed to hear the solemn voice of the Caro- 
lina Dove, in one or another part of the neighboring woods . 
Gilbert saw a pair on the 15th of April, and a single bird 
two days later flying past the cabin, but my only personal 
observation during the entire season was confined to glimpses 
of a bird near Carlisle bridge on May 31st. On June 24th Mr. 
Dudley Pickman told me that a pair of Doves had been frequent- 
ly seen during the past week in the woods on his estate in 
Bedford about a mile below the bridge just mentioned. 
I attribute the disappearance of these attractive birds 
from the Ball's Hill region where they bred so nunerously a 
