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friends back to the Lower Mill in whose clearing the grosbeak 

 had been feeding. This time they were farther down the road, 

 as usual under a wild-cherry tree. The flock seemed much 

 smaller, comprising not more than forty birds. This time I 

 noted that they had three distinct notes, the usual call which is 

 like the chirp of an English Sparrow, a chirring chorus when all 

 sing together in a tree, and a single clear flight-note. 



The next time I saw this flock was on February 17th when 

 I again found them in the morning about eleven o'clock feeding 

 on the ground near the usual place. This time there were not 

 more than thirty in the flock. The miller told me that in the 

 early morning they came into his front yard and even on his 

 porch and that at first there were as many as one hundred in 

 the flock. This is undoubtedly only an estimate on his part. 

 He also reported that they fed on the crumbs which his chil- 

 dren put out for them, another statement which I would be in- 

 clined to doubt as the evening grosbeak is essentially a nut- 

 cracker. This same miller I afterwards found was shooting the 

 males and selling them for one dollar each, which probably ac- 

 counted for the steady decrease of the flock. He stated that 

 although he had lived in and near New Lisbon all his life he 

 had never before seen this bird. At this time I noted the slightly 

 forked short tails of the birds and the strange effect which the 

 yellow ring around the eye gives the bird when seen in profile, 

 giving it a curious, spectacled appearance. The huge beak and 

 the short tail also give the bird a clumsy appearance. From 

 my study of this and other flocks they seem to be rather a stolid 

 bird in their behavior. On this day one of my neighbors re- 

 ported that he had seen a flock at Brown's Mills on January 10th. 

 As this is only a few miles from New Lisbon I am inclined to 

 believe that it was the same flock as mine, since I could never 

 find my flock except in the morning and they seemed to have 

 separate feeding places for the afternoon and morning. On that 

 same day, February 17th, George H, Stuart, 3rd, saw a pair in 

 the afternoon, a male and female, not far from the house at 

 Lower Mill. On that date I also saw several places where the 

 Grosbeaks had torn open the pods of the yellow locust. 



On February 22nd I again visited New Lisbon with a number 



