222 BIRDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN 



close beside the pond until in the progress 

 of clearing up the Garden these plants were 

 removed. In the early morning of Novem- 

 ber 6, which was clouded and frosty, our 

 foreign visitor made use of a small pool of 

 water upon the turf, where a hose-attach- 

 ment allowed a little to flow, and refreshed 

 himself with a bath. 



Ten days later, in the early morning of 

 November 17, the bird was found sitting 

 on a bough of an English hawthorn which 

 stands north of the Ether Monument, and 

 singing sweetly in very soft tones, so soft 

 that had I not been as near as only twenty 

 feet away I could not have heard him. He 

 had fully settled into the mood of singing, 

 for he moved not upon the bough and 

 paused not in his utterance of the sweet 

 notes so long as I remained, which was at 

 least ten minutes. Passers-by moved on 

 the plank walk near the tree, but these dis- 

 turbed not the bird, as he sat in the seclu- 

 sion of the boughs. The song was so nearly 

 formless that it lacked definiteness, but 

 occasionally phrases were heard which re- 



