least they seem to indicate that delicate grades of pro- 

 tection are wielded by pattern and color, and that up 

 to the limit of danger, the more protected individuals 

 will trust to this concealment and conserve their ener- 

 gies of flight. 



A vast field awaits the experimenter along these 

 lines, for if we can prove that the sparrow hawk is 

 color blind to red, the scarlet-coated tanager is as well 

 protected from this danger as his leaf-green mate. 

 Recently it has been shown that a dog has little or no 

 color perception, although his almost miraculous scent 

 discrimination fully compensates him in his particular 

 walk of life. 



SOME NOTES FROM 

 MORRISTOWN, N. J. 



By Maunsell Schieffelin Crosby 



The accompanying bird records must only be 

 taken for what they are worth. They were made be- 

 tween the ages of fourteen and seventeen, while I was 

 at school at Morristown, N. J. My observations were 

 made very irregularly, as studies and games had to 

 come first. A few early morning walks and Sunday 

 afternoon strolls were the only occasions when I could 

 really go afield, and then the ground covered was usu- 

 ally restricted to a small part of the beautiful valley 

 of the Whippany River, which flows very near the 

 school. Somewhere in the woods along its banks my 

 first pair of field glasses are undoubtedly still rusting, 

 unless someone chanced by soon after I lost them. I 

 missed them badly, for by screwing up and unscrew- 



