526 Wright, Morning Awakening and Evensong. [bet. 



season of 1912 and in former seasons there has been no similar 

 instance. Usually a second and a third Robin sing from one to 

 seven or eight minutes after the first bird. The full records of 1913 

 further confirm the priority of Chipping Sparrow as well as Song 

 Sparrow. Eleven records of Song Sparrow average 77 minutes; 

 ten records of Chipping Sparrow, 67 minutes; and nine records of 

 Robin, 63 minutes. Complete records of the three species, twenty- 

 eight in number, average for Song Sparrow 73 minutes, for Chipping 

 Sparrow, 66 minutes, for Robin 64 minutes. These times are 

 identical with those given in the table, which covers the seasons of 

 1912 and 1913 only. 



The Oven-bird's very early flight song, often followed by a 

 second rendering somewhat later or sung by a second bird, or both, 

 precedes by forty to fifty minutes, and sometimes even more, the 

 regular song of the species, which averages to be given at 3.34, as 

 many records show. Thus the Oven-bird in the time of its usual 

 song ranks with the other warblers. But it so often sings its flight 

 song once or twice at the much earlier hour that this song is now 

 adopted to give the species its ranking. 



As to the Barn Swallow, the farm barn having been removed, 

 which had stood in the near neighborhood and was always occupied 

 by a colony, no satisfactory records were obtained in the season 

 of 1912. So the eleven records of this colony in previous seasons 

 which were combined in the first paper are retained, supplemented 

 by three records of 1913. 



A pair of Tree SwalloAvs nested in 1912 and again in 1913 in a 

 box fastened to the front of the stable. The records are of the male 

 bird in song flight between May 31 and June 17, 1913, inclusive. 

 The records of 1912 obtained later in June and in early July on 

 account of previous unfavorable weather, because less representa- 

 tive, have not been retained. There are three records of 2.56, 2.57, 

 and 2.5S, or 68, 66, and 64 minutes before sunrise; and one record 

 is extraordinarily early, namely, 2.15 on June 19, a morning of 

 remarkable clearness with full moon and the stars shining bril- 

 liantly. I was out at 2.15 and instantly heard the swallow in its 

 song flight. I think it had just mounted into the sky and begun 

 its song at 107 minutes before sunrise. As 1 have no other record 

 within 42 minutes as early, I am inclined to regard this extremely 



