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which we are familiar? Yet some re- 

 semblance in anatomical structure has 

 settled the question in the scientific 

 world,- and a sparrow he shall be. Be- 

 sides his cherawink, which is his alarm 

 note, the bird has a rather musical call 

 note, tow-lice, sometimes ending in a long 

 sparrow-like trill, which perhaps suffi- 

 ciently vindicates the ornithologists in 

 their classification of him. The chewink 

 is usually found, like the field-sparrow, in 

 bushy pasture-lots or on the borders of 

 the woods, and, like the sparrow, con- 

 tinues singing far into the summer. While 

 picnicking at the Lake last August in the 

 pine grove just above the Poor-Farm 

 Bridge on the Shrewsbury side, I remember 

 hearing the field-sparrows and chewinks 

 singing in unison, while not another bird- 

 note was to be heard in any direction. 



On the tip top of a tree near by I espy 

 a cow blackbird, or cow-bird (jnolothrus 

 pecoris), emitting with commendable as- 

 siduity his queer, sibilant cluck-see. This 

 bird has been with us a month, and should, 



