222 BIRDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN 



close beside the pond until in the progress 

 of clearing up the Garden these plants were 

 removed. In the early morning of Novem- 

 ber 6, which was clouded and frosty, our 

 foreign visitor made use of a small pool of 

 water upon the turf, where a hose-attach- 

 ment allowed a little to flow, and refreshed 

 himself with a bath. 



Ten days later, in the early morning of 

 November 17, the bird was found sitting 

 on a bough of an English hawthorn which 

 stands north of the Ether Monument, and 

 singing sweetly in very soft tones, so soft 

 that had I not been as near as only twenty 

 feet away I could not have heard him. - He 

 had fully settled into the mood of singing, 

 for he moved not upon the bough and 

 paused not in his utterance of the sweet 

 notes so long as I remained, which was at 

 least ten minutes. Passers-by moved on 

 the plank walk near the tree, but these dis- 

 turbed not the bird, as he sat ia the seclu- 

 sion of the boughs. The song was so nearly 

 formless that it lacked definiteness, but 

 occasionally phrases were heard which re- 



