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him, which he is said to eat. Suet, which 

 was tied in shrubs in the vicinity, has ap- 

 parently not been touched. Personally I 

 have never seen him feeding on anything 

 put out for him, but scratching or hunting 

 about in the manure spread on the grass." 

 Mrs. Gabot also states that she has seen 

 him on Beacon Street near the Public Gar- 

 den and has never heard of his being seen 

 farther west than Berkeley Street. 



This Blackbird was again seen by Mr. 

 E. E. Caduc and me in the late afternoon 

 of February 20 in one of the trees at the 

 head of Commonwealth Avenue, having 

 flown from the direction of the Garden. 

 He placed himself snugly out of the wind in 

 the main crotch of the tree but little above 

 the level of our heads. I had seen him take 

 a similar position in the Garden in Decem- 

 ber, in the first crotch of a purple beech, 

 so narrow in width between the ascending 

 trunks that he was almost concealed from 

 view, and would not have been detected 

 there had I not seen him fly to the position. 



Three later records of this bird have been 



