RECORDS VOLUME XI, JAN., 1919. 17 



Saturday, Jan. 25. Waverley. 



Pleasant, rather mild, 40°, with a cool, moderate west 

 wind. Our walk was from Waverley to Lexins^ton Street, 

 Waltham. Birds seen :- 



1. Crow, 13. 



2. Black-capped Chickadee. 4. 



3. Tree Sparrow, a large tlock of 50 or more. 

 9. Starlings, 10. 



Notes. 



On Nov. 24 Mr. E. R. Jump saw a much belated Barn 

 Swallow at Brant Rock. The bird was trying to drink 

 unsuccesfully from a pool that was thinly covered with 

 ice, but when Mr. Jump broke the ice, the bird came back 

 and drank. 



Under date of Jan. 12, Miss Edith M. Esterbrook writes 

 as follows :- 



'"Miss Guild and I today saw at the corner of Winslow 

 Ave. and Saunders Ave. in Norwood a flock of 25 Gold- 

 fioches singing and feeding on the seeds of the catkins of 

 a white birch tree. I don't suppose this is by any means 

 an unusual sight, but what Interested me was what I 

 called the 'cedar' color on many of them. On looking in 

 your book I saw that young males are quite 'bufty', some- 

 thing that I had never observed or heard of before." 



Under date of Jan. 19, Mrs, S. H. Dudley sends the fol- 

 lowing very interesting communication from Berlin :- 



"1 had the rare pleasure today of seeing closely and 

 for some time a flock of Evening Grosbeaks right here in 



