A HERMIT'S WILD FRIENDS 



throats near this spot, and the sprightly song 

 could be heard from May 1st to the middle of 

 July. I have heard the song in September. 



A short distance from the frog-pond, on 

 the left, there is another pond, or shoal bog, 

 where frogs and red-winged blackbirds appear 

 to own the earth or water. Still farther along 



MARYLAND YELLOWTHROAT. 



the old highway, on the right, there is a 

 walled-in territory, called the " Sheep Pas- 

 ture." I think I could carry the grass in 

 this so-called pasture in my hands. A mass 

 of boulders and bed-rock, set off by barberry- 

 bushes, comprises the view, but this rugged 

 pasture (?) is the home of the field-sparrow 

 (Spizella agrestis). This sparrow is not so 

 common as the song-sparrow and bay- 

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