152 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1875 June 14 the house in time for dinner. On P.M. started off again and drove up into Prospect St. When I tried and visited the nest of [illegible] found on the 7th inst. It contained two eggs which I took. The parent birds sat in a neighboring oak and looked on as I disposed their treasure with perfect apparent unconcern. Took a nest of N. Penns. Found the dam date 3 moth (day) Heggs. Started a g group with a brood of young. She made a great fuss flitting along the ground & making a pitious noise exactly like a dog when whining for admission at a closed door. I can only on chick but presume there are more. It was apparently about a well fed. Dwell and very abundant. I see or hear them every day. Sometimes the male calls Bob White continuously 10 or 2 dozen times in succession without the slightest interval between the ordinarily sparse utterances. Their songs are apparently at their height as they are very loving now so than I have observed them to be before. All the fall notes are fully and. June 15 Clear and rather warm. Met Harry Bailey at Watertown by appointment and taking the train to Watertown we spent the day in that town hunting for nests, and late in the afternoon walked down through Wauky to Adams Place when we took the horse car home. Had most miserable luck taking