Concord, Mass. 
1899. 
April 9 
As I was returning from the Emersons' this evening I met 
. Fred Hosraer . He saw in Dugan Brook meadow near Marshall 
Miles's (Nine Acre Corner) " a Plover about the size of a 
Meadow Lark, with a white ring around the neck and some con- 
spicuous bright cinnamon brown on the back or rump . it was 
noisy and shy flying from place to place, alighting on a sheet 
Ox ice, boobing its head up and down as it stood watching him" 
When I imitated the cry of a Killdeer he said "That was the 
bird" . 
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