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notes are known, one realizes that before he was often in a woods 

 peopled with interesting birds, but beyond occasionally seeing one fly 

 from one tree to another, he did not know of their presence. They 

 usually fly from a higher to a lower place; from some distance up 

 on one tree to near the ground on another, and then begin creeping 

 over the trunk, sometimes ascending in an approximately straight line, 

 often climbing spirally, going several times around the tree in making 

 the ascent. Mr. William Brewster says of their song at breeding 

 time: "Their notes are varied and warbling, and somewhat confused; 

 some of them are loud, powerful and unsurpassingly sweet, others are 

 more feeble and plaintive. Their song usually ends with their accus- 

 tomed cry, which may be represented by cree-cree-cre-ep" Their songs 

 we do not hear in southern Indiana, but in March and April, during 

 the spring migration, and in October, when they return, we hear 

 their well-known. calls. I found them industriously hunting and ut- 

 tering their cry October 19, 1896. In the fall they sometimes asso- 

 ciate with those little mixed parties of Chickadees, Titmice, Downy 

 Woodpeckers and other chosen spirits, but often then, as they usually 

 do in spring, very often associate themselves with little flocks of 

 Golden-crowned Kinglets. I never saw so many birds of these two 

 species as I did April 12, 1897. The woods were alive with them. 

 They were everywhere. Their tiny voices made music in all parts of 

 the forest growth. In one thicket, where I stood quietly for a few mo- 

 ments to watch the passing of the little birds, I observed at the same 

 time three Brown Creepers on a small tree and six Golden-crowned 

 Kinglets among the bushes, all within thirty feet of me, and very tame. 

 The greater number of them are migrants with us. They begin to 

 appear about the middle of September some years, and most have passed 

 by the latter part of October. They have been reported as making 

 their first appearance at Chicago, 111., September 13, 1895; Cincinnati, 

 0., September 21, 1897; Warren County, September 15, 1878; Lafay- 

 ette, Ind., October 2, 1896; Sedan, October 5, 1889; Greensburg, Sep- 

 tember 27, 1896; Brookville, October 6, 1884. 



In the spring, through the last half of March and early April, they 

 are frequently very common. Some of them linger until the last of 

 that month or even into May. They have been noted at Brookville 

 as late as April 21, 1890; Greensburg, April 2u, 1895; Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio, April 27, 1879; Sedan, April 23, 1889; Lafayette, May 

 3, 1893. At Bloomington it has been noted as late as May 30, 

 1888, by Mr. G. G. Williamson. Hon. R. Wes. McBride has 

 given the following account of its breeding in Steuben County: 

 ""In my notebook I find the following, under date of May 8, 1882: 



