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namely, October 10, it was in the same tree 

 in the southwest quarter of the grounds; 

 for a time at first this was its chosen 

 section, and occasionally afterwards it re- 

 turned to it But later it was seen in all 

 quarters of the Garden, most often, how- 

 ever, on the Beacon Street side, and after 

 a time almost exclusively there and in that 

 part of it which reaches up to Arlington 

 Street. It sometimes had as a companion 

 a robin or a hermit thrush, according as 

 migrants of these species occasionally came 

 to the Garden on their way southward. I 

 recall that on one morning, when an early 

 snow was fast falling, the Blackbird was 

 moving about the rocks which surround the 

 base of the large Japanese lantern near the 

 curbing of the pond and with it were both 

 a robin and a hermit thrush. 



As the leaves continued to drop from the 

 trees, leaving them more and more bare, 

 the Blackbird was often seen in the Eng- 

 lish hawthorns, which still held their foliage 

 and afforded it seclusion and protection ; 

 and it showed a fondness for a bed of salvia 



