The Birds’ Calendar 
by the following list of birds seen on the roth 
of the month: flicker, brown creeper, fox 
sparrow, white-throat, song sparrow, ruby- 
crowned kinglet, gold-crest, goldfinch (which 
has almost regained its summer plumage), 
snow - bird, robin, red - bellied woodpecker, 
phoebe, crossbill, nuthatch, crow blackbird, 
hermit thrush, and pine-creeper—a miscella- 
neous assortment of winter residents, summer 
residents, and migrants, and representative of 
eight distinct families. 
Frequently one hears a loud, clear, and 
peculiar whistle, not on one pitch, like the tone 
of the white-throat, but with an upward inflec- 
tion, like the effect produced in whistling by 
giving to the tone a short and quick stroke up- 
ward. After a succession of such tones comes 
another series with a corresponding downward 
inflection and more rapid, the whole effect 
represented thus : 
Bes eg ie) a ea 
By one who knows the note of the cardinal 
grosbeak this will be recognized as an accurate 
ocular description, and for one who has never 
heard it, I can say with confidence that it is 
not more cabalistic and inadequate than the 
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