THE BIRDS OF PRINCETON. IO5 



also often seen here, as is the redstart, 

 whose brisk trill so often salutes you on 

 going out of the open into the forest. 

 The chimney-swifts are very abundant, the 

 chimneys of nearly every farm-house seem- 

 ing to be repositories of their nests. Of 

 the swallows, the cliff or eave swallow 

 seems to be the prevailing species ; the 

 bank-swallows, I am told, are not uncom- 

 mon, but the white-breasted and the barn 

 are very rare. 



Yesterday, while sitting in the stony pas- 

 ture back of the Mt. Pleasant House, where 

 the well-known authoress " H. H." is said 

 to have passed much of her time during 

 her yearly visits to Princeton, we could 

 not help remarking the peculiar sense of 

 wildness and remoteness which the ring- 

 ing, vibrating song of the bush-sparrow 

 produced on the mind. This little bird, 

 about the size of the chipping-sparrow, is 

 the least known of all our common spar- 

 rows, but it is hard to understand how his 

 clear, ringing whistle can fail to attract 

 attention. 



