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them. I could determine by the actions of the young that a parent 

 was near by, and the fledgling knew it somehow, though the old birds 

 uttered no call or chirp. To all appearances the parents were ignor- 

 ing the squalling babes, and during the hour that I permitted myself 

 to be tortured by the bog pests they gave no sign of anxiety or alarm 

 over the fate of their young. 



At length I found a way to get a view of the adult, for, after feed- 

 ing one of the brood, the parent would fly out of the thicket and 

 alight low in a sapling or shrub at the outskirts of the covert where 

 the young were hiding, stopping only momentarily and then hurrying 

 away for a fresh morsel of food. The cry of the young Lincoln 

 Sparrow is a loud chirp, not like that of any other sparrow in the 

 region, and sounds more like the cry of a nestling Sapsucker. It 

 seemed to care nothing about my proximity. Sometimes when its 

 young are hiding in an open spot the adult will perch in view in 

 the lower branches of a tree and utter a low tchup, quite different 

 from that of the Song Sparrow; in most cases, though, the parent 

 will lurk just out of sight of the observer. 



Song Sparrow. Melospiza melodia melodia (Wils.) 



Length 6.2. Reddish brown and gray with black streaks ; breast darkly 

 streaked, with a central cluster conspicuous; head striped. 



The Song Sparrow has a wide local range, including clearings of all 

 kinds, the Burn, and the borders of the woods. It is particularly 

 associated with shrubbery near still water. The dry Meadow, rankly 

 overgrown with grass waist high and intermingled berry bushes, with 

 a slow-running brook at one side fringed with alders was here its 

 favorite habitat, and with the Yellow-throat, it fairly monopo- 

 lized the area. The Song Sparrow nests freely near buildings and 

 camps. Once this summer at Barber Point some young fir branches 

 were cut and heaped back of a tent to be used for a sleeping bunk, 

 but, being left unused, a nest of the Song Sparrow with three eggs 

 was soon made in it, within arm's length of the tent. Another nest 

 was in a tuft of grass at the base of a small blackberry bush, at the 

 edge of tbe campus near the wharf. 



Slate-colored Junco; Snowbird. J unco hy emails hy emails 

 (Linn.) 



Length 6.2. Head and back slate-gray; breast and sides somewhat 

 lighter; belly and outer tail-feathers white. 



The Slate-colored Junco is at home in all the woodland of 

 the Adirondack region. A favorite location for its nest is among 

 the root fibers of an overturned tree, and hence woods, as in a burn 

 with occasional fallen trees, afford the Junco a desirable habitat. 

 Another Junco haunt is a slope of terraced rock overgrown with 

 moss and supporting a growth of spruce and fir, as is common in 

 ravines. 



The Junco is remarkably versatile in its adaptability to conditions, 

 and understands the art of making itself at home in many varying 

 circumstances. In the summer of 1916 a pair made a nest in the side 



