512 Wkight, Morning Awakening and Evensong. [oct'. 



MORNING AWAKENING AND EVEN-SONG. 

 Second Paper. 1 



By Horace W. Wright. 



So interesting had the procuring of definite data upon the sub- 

 ject of morning awakening and even-song become, that I was again 

 moved in the season of 1912 at Jefferson Highland, New Hampshire, 

 to obtain more records for comparison with those which had been 

 procured there in former seasons and had served as the basis of my 

 first paper. 2 The fifteen records which were then brought together 

 had all been taken from one position, namely, the lawn with 

 extended open space on either hand and the mountain side partially 

 covered with mixed timber growth across the road. Here the 

 awakening of the birds of the open country, the roadside, and the 

 wood border had been recorded, but it remained to take position 

 within the woods among the songsters resident there, and obtain 

 records of their first songs. To effect this five records were taken 

 in the midst of the fifty-acre piece of woodland lying between our 

 buildings and the river and four others where in its lower extension 

 it is bordered by a large field. In these locations I was brought 

 near to some other species than those within range of hearing on 

 the Highland. Nine other records were also procured in the 

 former position on the lawn and at the gateway for the purpose 

 of comparison with those previously obtained. On all occasions 

 I was upon the chosen ground some time before the first song or 

 call-note was given, so that I was assured that the earliest note 

 had been heard; the time of waiting ranged from ten to thirty 

 minutes; on many occasions it was fifteen minutes. 



By these new records most of the statements of the first paper 

 have been confirmed. Others require some modification. The 

 flycatchers, the sparrows, and the thrushes still prove to be the 

 earliest awakening birds, and the warblers as a family follow these. 

 But the new positions taken, namely, in the heart of the woodland 



i Read before the Nuttall Ornithological Club, March 17, 1913, and revised in 

 accordance with additional records obtained in the season of 1913. 

 s Auk, XXIX, No. 3, July, 1912, pp. 307-327. 



