April 29.
Return to Concord.
At Natural History Rooms in Boston.
Have I seen the least bittern? It is so brown above and yellowish, woolly, white beneath.
The American goshawk is slate above, gray beneath; the young spotted dark and white beneath, and brown above.
Fish hawk, white beneath.
Young of marsh hawk, reddish-brown above, iron-rusty beneath.
Summer duck with a crest.
Dusky duck, not black, but rather dark brown.
The velvet ducks I saw, hardly large enough for this.
My whiter ducks may be the Merganser castor, or the red breasted.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, April 29, 1853
Have I seen the least bittern? It is so brown above and yellowish, woolly, white beneath.
The American goshawk is slate above, gray beneath; the young spotted dark and white beneath, and brown above.
Fish hawk, white beneath.
Young of marsh hawk, reddish-brown above, iron-rusty beneath.
Summer duck with a crest.
Dusky duck, not black, but rather dark brown.
The velvet ducks I saw, hardly large enough for this.
My whiter ducks may be the Merganser castor, or the red breasted.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, April 29, 1853
