CONCORD. 
1892 
February 5 
Crows - 
To Ball’s Hill by sleigh at 10 A.M., taking 
lunch and spending the day. 
On the road saw a flock of sixteen Crows and a 
fine Red-tailed Hawk. The latter started from the top of 
Buteo borealis 
a living pine, shaking down a shower of fine snow as it 
took wing. 
Golden crests 
Fox tracks 
Walked down to the Hill from Bensen* s along the 
back side of the pine ridge. The trees still bear much 
snow and the young pines in the glacial hollow were loaded 
with dazzling masses, presenting a beautiful appearance. 
Two Kinglets and a Chickadee or two on this ridge._J 
Spent most of the forenoon trying to burn my 
big brush heap but the snow which covered the top melted 
as soon as the flames reached it and quickly put out the 
fire. Jays screaming in my woods and Tree Sparrows 
chirping in the swamp. Heard Snow Buntings in the air but 
did not see them. A Fox had crossed the eastern side of my 
lot in the night. He made two kinds of tracks sometimes 
putting a fore and hind foot on exactly the same spot, 
O & c ° 
sometimes a little apart, thds: q r7 or O 
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The longest stride I could find was only twelve inches. The 
pad marks measured 2 inches in length by 1-jf inches in 
- ( " Trev or) 
width. The single tracks were never exactly in line (thus: 
) but always in two parallel lines. 
