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chirping of a pair of Golden-Aving-s, and soon sav/ that th^)- 

 were feeding some young. The Httle birds were perched on 

 vsome bushes and ahowed us to approach quite near them with- 

 out showing any ahirm. After a moment the parents, evi- 

 dently having become accustomed to human beings, as the 

 young were cpiite near a path in the pai-k, and must have 

 been reared in tlie immediate neighborhood, l)egan to feed 

 them again without ])aying au}^ attention to us, thus Ave had 

 an excellent opportunity to observe the entire family. This 

 nest must have been l)uilt on the hill half Avay to the sumnjit, 

 in a perfectly diy place, l)iit with a pool of Avater tAvo or three 

 hundred yards aAvaA\ 



S:>XG. There are fcAv Avarl)ler songs Avhich are more mo- 

 notonous than that of the ordinarA^ lay of the (irolden-Avino-. 

 It consists of a series of lisping or zeeing notes, lazily given 

 «11 in about the same tone, or descending a little from the first 

 to the last. The foUoAving Avill giA'e some idea of this song 

 in syllables; ""Zee zee zee zee zee'\ IthasA'ery little A'olume, 

 and can thus be heard only a short distance. I had been list- 

 ening to this song for many years and did not suj^pose the 

 bird ever gave any other, hence was quite surprised Avhen, on 

 June 14:, 1898, I heard a rather harsh Avarbling song Avhich 

 Avas new to me, and succeeded in tracing it to a male Golden- 

 wing. The bird gaAc this song repeatedl}^, and no other at 

 that time. I haA^e ncA^er heard this peculiar song since. The 

 alarm note is a rather sharp chirp. 



Migration and Breeding Range, Rather singularly 

 I haA^e ncA^er seen a living Golden-Aving out of Massachusetts, 

 this is ])robably dne to the fact that they pursue a A'cry regnlar 

 course in migrating, and that I have ncA^er been in this track 

 at the right season. They breed throughout eastern United 

 States from the mountains of the Carolinas, northern Xcav 

 Jersey, northern Indiana, and central Illinois, nortliAvard to 

 Massachusetts, south-western Ontario, northern Michigan, 



