'Yd:! ' J Allen, Morning Awakening. !2->l 



.■mil the Etobin not till 3.05. The Chipping Sparrow thai morning 

 did not begin till 3. '-'<), and I am now pretty confidenl thai tlh-> 

 early efforl of the Song Sparrow's should have been set down as a 

 nighl song. My average of eighteen records of the Robin, make 

 liis first song ;it 3.04. Mr. Wright's average of twelve is 3.02, 

 approximately the same, though it should be remembered that the 

 earliesl 9unrising al Jefferson, X. II., is five minutes earlier than at 

 Boston. My average, therefore, is actually three minutes earlier 

 than his, but the difference is so sligh.1 thai I think the two may 

 be considered identical. This makes the contrast in our averages 

 for the two sparrows in question the more remarkable. My aver- 

 age of twelve records For the Song Sparrow is -'>.\7 as against Mr. 

 Wright's 2.56 for the same number; and for the Chipping Sparrow 

 my thirteen observations average 3.21, while his twelve average 

 2.58. 



Mr. Wrighl notes the hurried manner of the ( Ihipping Sparrow's 

 singing after he gets warmed up to it in the morning. This habit 

 is a striking one, and I do not remember to have seen it mentioned 

 in print before. The trills at that time are much shorter than at 

 other times of the day and follow one another In quick succession 



with hardly a breath between. 



If we assume that my averages of the Song Sparrow's and Chip- 

 ping Sparrow's beginnings are correct and that the former starts 



thirteen and the latter seventeen minutes after the Rohin, then 

 these two species should appear after the Veery in Mr. Wright's 

 list, as numbers I I and 12. There are, however, two other specie, 

 which I am sure Mr. Wright would have accorded earlier places if 

 he had had better Opportunities to hear- them. One of these, the 



Kingbird (Tyrannw tyrannua), he himself suspects. His two 

 observations, coming at 3.22 and .'!.:_' 1 respectively, .seemed to point 



to '.\:l'-\ as a safe assumption for an average, bu1 he admits that 



"it is not improbable thai if other records hail been obtained, the 

 Kingbird might rank somewhat earlier in the list." With me the 

 Kingbird ranks nexl after the Rohin. My average of ten records 

 when I have had one in the near neighborhood places it at 3.10. 

 I cannot tell from my own observations JUSl how it would rank 

 in relation to the Aider Flycatcher, the Barn Swallow, the White- 

 throated Sparrow, the Wood l'ewee, and the Vesper Sparrow, he- 



