1902 
March 21 
A Pheasant 
at the 
Farm 
March 30 
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A Mongolian Pheasant is also frequenting this neigh¬ 
borhood again this year (there was one here last spring). It 
was seen by Beneen last Monday (17th) in Mr. Howe’s pasture 
very near the school-house and by Hansen a few days before 
this. It is a male bird, they say. 
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Walter Deane came from Cambridge and Raymond Emerson 
from Concord late this afternoon to hear the Woodcock. We 
went to the pasture soon after 6 o'clock. Raymond was 
telling me that his brother William had seen a large flock 
of Geese passing northward this morning when I heard faintly 
but distinctly in the direction of Punkatassett Hill the 
note of a Canada Goose. The sound increased in volume and 
frequency until the air was filled with the strangely thrilling, 
sonorous clamor. A moment later the flock appeared at a 
height so great that its members appeared scarce larger than 
Swallows. There were over 100 of the noble birds (I counted 
112 roughly) arranged at first in a double barrow, later 
strung out in a line hundreds of yards in length. They were 
moving directly northward and long after they had passed 
beyond our vision their honking came distinctly to our ears. 
