1903 
October 18 
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Raymond Emerson tells me that a Concord man named 
William Gibbs found a Black Duck’s nest at Goose Pond last 
spring. There were eight eggs which he took and brought to 
town. Samuel Hoar, Jr. took four of them and Dr. Titcomb's 
son the other four. All were hatched successfully under 
hens and the young birds are all alive and now fully grown, 
Raymond saw the four belonging to young Hoar only a few 
days ago. He also says that some boys whom he knows found 
a large brood of small ducklings swimming in the river at 
Fairhaven a year ago last spring. They called them Black 
Ducks. 
1902 
November 9 
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I had an interesting experience this evening with 
Partridges, seeing (or rather, hearing) three of them go 
to roost. I was standing motionless among some slender, 
crowded white pines 30 to 35 feet in height when all three 
birds came flying into them in quick succession, alighting 
well up in the trees and at least forty or fifty feet apart, 
I heard the whirring of their wings at a considerable distance 
and each bird as it neared its perch crashed recklessly 
and very noisily thro-ugh the inner dead branches, making, 
indeed, a sound so very loud that it would have startled me 
considerably had it not beeb- preceded by the unmistakable 
whir of the birds’ wings. • • 
