Concord, 
Ball* s Hill. 
1892 
Birds singing 
in the 
early 
morning 
I awoke at daybreak but heard almost no birds. 
Again at 6 A.M. Chapman and I were both awake but there was 
curiously little singing. When we arose at 7 A. M. the birds 
seemed to have roused themselves at last and we heard Tawny 
Thrushes, Thrashers,. Cat-birds, and a few Black-polled 
Warblers along the river front and on the opposite shores of 
the meadows. There were at least two Water Thrushes in 
front of the cabin but neither sang and both were doubtless 
females. 
White-eyed 
Vireo 
U nusual 
song of a 
Robin 
We spent the forenoon very quietly taking a short 
walk over my land and spending severa.l hours talking in the 
cabin. As we were lying on the ground on the top of Ball's 
Hill at about 10 A. M. a White-eyed Yireo began singing in 
the oak woods on the N. W. slope. By degrees it worked its 
way along the base of the hill into the big swamp where we 
last heard it about noon. It was doubtless a migrant, merely 
tarrying for the day, but it is the very first White-eye 
that I have ever heard in Concord although the bird breeds 
at Wayland, according to Faxon. 
A Robin singing at the western end of Ball’s Hill 
this morning interpolated in its song, at rather long, 
irregular intervals, a succession of rather sharp yet woodeny 
notes which reminded me of the peculiar challenge of the 
Wood Thrush. In fact I supposed at first that there really 
