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^jody pea-hod If of rhe white -thru\ted .-[mutow. It is a cbarao- 

 teristic feature, es])ecially of lower Ijal)raclor. The ke being 

 ■uttered several tones l«nver than the other notes, ^vhieh are al^ 

 •on the same kev. Sometimes th.e pea-body is repeated only 

 twiee, and rarely a single time. I was much strnek by this 

 latter lact, a-s a curious < ircumstance impressed it njion my 

 memory. I was walking through the brush just back of the 

 station at ^Nlingan, at dusk, on-e evening. The air was full of 

 the melody of this little songster, when suddenly I noticed, I 

 'Cannot tell why as there was certainly nothing in the note to 

 <3ause one to be suspicious, a rather shrill yet mellow tee-dee- 

 dee pea-bodij ]^ea-h<)dii, uttered just beyond the thicket at iny 

 right. The jmi-f^odi/ was repeated but twice, whereas it is 

 usually though not always repeateil three times. The call 

 was immediately responded to by the sanie notes with the 

 word sounded but once. This unusual c.U set me to think- 

 ing, so much so that, though not positive, I am very strongly 

 of the impression that the call was repeated iu exactly the re- 

 verse order. The next instant an Indian stepped out in each 

 of the directions whence the emails had proceeded and, ap- 

 proaching fach other, walked slowdy towards the station. I 

 had unconsciously detected one of the Indian means of attract- 

 ing the attention of their fellows Avithout discovery to them- 

 .selves. It was a le.sson in woodcraft to me that I have never 

 forgotten. I fouu<l this charming little fellow everywhere I 

 went all along the coast, though never quite so common as its 

 intimate friend the white-cown. They were always together 

 in sedge, field, thicket, and wood. In the Spring, at morning 

 and at evening, they trilled forth their lay in common, acd 

 sometimes so closely together that one could barely distin- 

 guish from which bird each note came. The white-throat 

 is common everywhere and breeds. It seems to select situa- 

 tions iu which to place its nest more remote from habitations 

 than does the white-crowned, which rears its young in cozy 

 nests often a few rods only from the dooryards of the houses. 

 I shot my first specimen at Old Fort Island, October 6. I 



