CONCORD 
1897 
ember 3 
E a rly this morning I heard a Snow Bunting give 
the chattering flight call a dozen times or more at short 
intervals without once uttering the clear peer which 
almost invariably follows the chatter closely. The bird 
(I think there was but one) seemed to pass over Ball’s 
Hill and off over the Great Meadows towards the southwest 
but I could not get my eye on it. I think I heard a Snow 
Bunting here nearly a week ago but was not sufficiently 
sure at the time to make a note of it. 
Horned Larks and Titlarks were also flying about 
over the meadows before the fog cleared this morning but 
I could not tell how many there were of them. I saw at 
least three Titlarks, however. 
There must have been a number of Snipe,too, for 
a gunner with a Gordon setter spent nearly the whole 
forenoon beating back and forth over the grounds and fired 
at least a dozen or fifteen shots. 
A Partridge drummed at short, regular intervals 
for more than an hour this morning (10 -11 o'clock) near 
the crest of the high knoll in the Blakeman woods. (I 
afterwards examined the place and found that his drumming 
station is an old mossy stump under dense oaks.) 
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