COWBIRD 87 



year Mr. Glover M. Allen writes me that 

 he saw a Cowbird in the Garden near the 

 pond. 



In the early morning of April 7 of the 

 same year I heard the characteristic cow- 

 bird whistle from a tree on the Common. 

 It was the day which brought the first ves- 

 per sparrow, the first swamp sparrow, and 

 the first hermit thrush of the season to the 

 grounds and contributed to the number of 

 song and fox sparrows which were present. 

 The whistles were heard but a few times, 

 when the bird took wing and flew away. 



In the winter of 1904-05 a male Cowbird 

 roosted nightly with the house sparrows 

 in the King's Chapel Burying-Ground, 

 where, as all Bostonians know, the sparrows 

 congregate in vast numbers to spend the 

 night in the few trees standing therein, 

 measurably protected by the walls which 

 rise around it. Mr. F. P. Spalding in the 

 engineering department at the City Hall 

 discovered the bird on November 16, a date 

 which would indicate that it was a "left- 

 over." I saw it upon November 25 and De- 



