CONCORD. 
Is 
1879 
fctober 4 
\ 
A clear, soft, mellow autumn day of the very 
rarest type. For the past week the weather has been contin¬ 
uously warm and, at times, almost sultry, but this morning 
there was that crisp, sparkling quality in the air that is 
peculiar to autumn. 
^S tarting off at about 9 A.M. with C., we drove 
down the turnpike to Hall s s where I spent an hour or two 
hunting for woodcock. I flushed only two, both of which I 
killed at the first shot. I had "Druid" with me and he 
found both birds tho' he did not make a point on either. 
He however stiffened very handsomely on one of them after 
it had been killed. The first was driven out towards me, 
just after I had jumped the fence into the birches. Let¬ 
ting it pass me, I dropped it into the very middle of the 
road.j Small birds of various species were exceedingly 
abundant. The birches seemed most favored and their fast 
thinning tops were filled with busy little flitting forms. 
The Yellow-rump and the Black-poll 
wo c sj ■CeYst'i' (Lle-4x«^-r- amJL "Stw-( i. a* o. 
were most numerously represented among the Warblers. There 
were also many little companies of Sparrows, rustling in the 
the White-throat t 
wayside thickets, and I noted tn-b A/b j-coUv*. kw-j 
^ tfte Chipping Sparrows • N 
and da? So^t a i is C j in large numbers. 
I saw a few Cat Birds — two or three — and heard the 
-pthe Chewink , 
characteristic zweip of frp-Ua tiru h -th a |-y i 
in several places. Early this morning a Grass Finch sang 
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