Notes from Field and Study 



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Pairs 



♦Great Tii 3 



*Marsh Tit 

 *Coal Tit . . 

 *Blue Tit ... 



Long-tailed Tit 

 ♦Common Wren . 

 ♦Spotted Flycatcher 



♦Swallow 



♦Pied Wagtail . . .^ 



Garden Warbler 



Black-cap Warbler 



ChiffchalT .... 



Willow Wren . . 



Sedge Warbler . 



Whitethroat . . . 



Robin (two of these in boxes) 



Hedge Accentor 



Goldcrest 



Song Thrush . 



Blackbird . . 



Missel Thrush 



Green Finch 



Chaflinch . . 



Pheasant 



Pintail . . . 



Tufted Duck 



Mallard . . . 



Water-Hen . 5 



Coot .... 



House Sparrow. We did not 



count but guessed . . . .25 



This census comprised 34 species with 



a total number of 153 pairs of birds nesting 



on an acre of land and water. — J. R. 



Whitaker. D. C. M., Grand Lake, N. /•'. 



Evening Grosbeak at Portland, Maine 



The tirst record of the Evening Gros- 

 beak at Portland, Maine, was made early 

 in February, when a large flock settled in 

 a mountain-ash on private grounds in 

 the western part of the city. Throughout 

 the months of February and April, flocks 

 in varying numbers were observed in 

 different sections of the city, and the birds 

 remained until the eleventh of May, none 

 being seen, so far as known, after that 

 date. 



The writer saw these interesting x'isitors 

 on four occasions, both in low pine trees 



and on the ground. The males were in 

 beautiful plumage, and it was a rare treat 

 to see them, one's pleasure being greatly 

 enhanced by their fearlessness, as they 

 would permit a close approach without 

 taking flight. — S.ara Chandler F'.astman, 

 Porlhnid, Maine. 



Evening Grosbeak at Lancaster, N. H. 



We have had a flock of at least twenty- 

 five Evening Grosbeaks with us this 

 spring; the first were observed the last of 

 February. 



I saw them first the 22nd of March, on 

 a grassy patch on a bushy hillside whence 

 the snow had been blown, although there 

 was a considerable depth except in such 

 places. Up to the first of May they were 

 seen in flocks of from six to twenty-five. 

 Twice I caught them at their morning 

 bath in a little brook which runs through 

 an alder swamp; it was a very pretty 

 sight. Some of them would be on the 

 branches preening themselves while the 

 others were bathing, with a pair of Purple 

 Finches and a Blue Jay sitting nearby, 

 watching the performance with much 

 curiosity, making a scene of quite tropical 

 color. Since the first of May I have seen 

 and heard onlj' one, two and three at a 

 time, and now none for two or three days. 

 — Martha W. Burchell, Lancaster, 

 X. 11. 



Evening Grosbeak at Topsfield, Mass. 



Several of my friends saw Evening 

 Grosbeaks in the last of March and the 

 early part of April. I did not see them 

 until .\pril 20, when I saw a male and two 

 females. They were very tame and I stood 

 close to them, watching them feed. — Mrs. 

 W. H. Herrick, Topsfield, Mass. 



Evening Grosbeak at Intervale, N. H., 

 and Longwood, Mass. 



T observed one Evening Cirosbeak at 

 Intervale, N. H., on January 29, a flock 

 of from a dozen to two dozen at 

 Longwood, Mass., from .Vjiril 15 to 18, 



