74 BIRDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN 



writes me that in the spring of 1907 he saw 

 two or three young birds going through a 

 sort of dance together on a grass-plot at 

 the left of the Joy Street path from Beacon 

 Street. Dr. Rand says: "I do not know 

 where they nested. They were young birds 

 because they were not fully feathered and 

 still had some of the down on their heads 

 sticking through the feathers/' Mr. Chester 

 S. Day, I am informed, in the same season 

 observed an old bird coming out of a nest- 

 hole in the same section of the Common. 

 Mr. E. E. Caduc informs me that he saw 

 a Flicker on the grass in the Garden on 

 July 2, 1908, and that two Flickers were 

 seen on the Common at intervals during 

 the summer of that year. 



Quite regularly in October and Novem- 

 ber Flickers are again present. The stay 

 of the autumn birds is often quite ex- 

 tended. One was seen occasionally on the 

 Common in 1907 into late December. This 

 bird was seen in the Garden on December 

 16 by Mr. Glover M. Allen. In 1908, Mr. 

 Caduc informs me that he saw four Flickers 



