field-ornithologists

Updated: May 12, 2025

The White-Breasted Sparrow is rare in Concord; but the Ashburnham woods, thirty miles away, are full of it. The Scarlet Tanager's is the commonest note in Concord, except the Red-Eyed Flycatcher's; yet one of the best field-ornithologists in Boston had never heard it.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862