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Two hours later the voice of hudsonicus was heard at Charlesgate, 

 proceeding from a bird closely pursued by a House Sparrow along 

 the embankment bordering the Charles River Basin. On a visit 

 to the Melrose section of the Fells on the following day, November 

 3, three more birds were seen, two feeding upon stalks of golden rod 

 at the border of woodland, and the third a mile distant in the Med- 

 ford section in young white pines. 



Up to this time thirteen individuals had been seen in a period of 

 six days in nine different localities. On November 6 in a walk 

 through Wayland into the border of East Sudbury the voice, now 

 come to be not infrequently heard, revealed a bird once again in 

 red cedar growth, among Golden-crowned Kinglets and Black- 

 capped Chickadees, with Fox Sparrows scratching on the ground 

 and a Winter Wren occasionally scolding and appearing among 

 the stones of the pasture wall. A week later, November 13, 

 four birds were seen in the Belmont pastures feeding together on 

 stalks of golden rod, patches of which stood among the not thickly 

 growing red cedars. The four were observed at one and the same 

 view several times as they successively moved from one patch to 

 another. When occasionally they flew into the cedars, it was but 

 to return presently to the golden rod. They called scarcely at all, 

 but fed silently. No Black-capped Chickadees were in the im- 

 mediate vicinity, but Goldcrests flitted among the cedars. On 

 November 18 a bird, apparently alone, was seen at the extreme 

 northern end of the Fells in the Winchester section in cedar and 

 pitch pine growth; and a mile distant on Bear Hill the voice of 

 another was heard among the cedars. 



On November 22 I again very leisurely traversed the cedar- 

 juniper-grown pastures of Belmont, which constitute an area of 

 half a square mile or more, with the definite intent of scoring as 

 far as possible the exact representation of hudsonicus within its 

 range. The result was nine birds, namely, 2+2-f l-f-2-t-l + l. 

 These were all moving from one cedar to another, or feeding upon 

 stalks of weeds, or picking seeds on the ground. In the locality 

 where the four birds had been feeding together on the 13th, no 

 hudsonicus was noted, but among the Golden-cro"WTied Kinglets 

 was an Orange-crowned Warbler well revealed on a barberry bush, 

 and among the rocks in the glen was a Winter Wren. In a trip to 



