140 RECORDS VOLUME XI, OCT. 1919. 



telephone pole and with difficiility got the locust into his 

 mouth and swallowed it. then, with no moment of rejec- 

 tion, began the exploration of a crack down the telephone 

 pole. 



There were many oiher birds here, and 1 wished that 

 you or Judge Jenney could have been with me to have 

 quickly identiiied many that 1 could not determine on in- 

 stant sight. 1 had a tine chance to view three Golden- 

 crowned .Kinglets. Two of them were evidently females 

 because the crown was very bright yellow, but one had a 

 little orange in the very center. There were numbers of 

 Sparrows, and some I could not identify, but among ihem 

 were White-throated Sparrows and Song Sparrows. I had 

 a moment's view at what looked like a White-crowned 

 Sparrow: it was of the right size, gray-white under parts, 

 but the band through the crown and line above the eye 

 were light brown There were a number of Purple Finch- 

 es. One was a young specimen, so a gentleman from 

 Marshfield who arrived as we were about to leave in- 

 formed me. 



We returned by the way of Orleans. Chatham, and 

 Harwichport where we stayed over night. It rained very 

 hard at times and we saw no birds except two Flickers, 

 a few Robins, two Kingfishers near Chatham, one Crow 

 living— the only one I had seen ail day — and no Black- 

 birds of any kind though we saw plenty of cornfields. 

 The paucity of Crows and no '" Blackbirds" is interesting 

 when we read what Thoreau says. No doubt you are fa- 

 miliar with the passage in his "Cape Cod' — The Plains 

 of Nauset: 



