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of a slight mound of earth on the open campus at Barber Point, 

 exposed to the eyes of persons in the tents not more than twenty 

 feet away ; and the male would forage industriously while his spouse 

 sat in the little nest, and would glean near the back door of the 

 cook-house as unconcernedly as the Chipping Sparrow or a Crossbill. 

 Some mustard plants had made a squatter's claim near the kitchen, 

 and the Junco frequently pecked at the mustard blooms. He would 

 Mutter up from the ground, pull at the flowers, and nip off portions 

 of the stamens and pistils. While these Juncos were feeding their 

 young in the nest, they pecked one morning at an old rain-soaked 

 biscuit that had been thrown under a tree on the campus. A pair of 

 Bronzed Crackles feeding young at the water's edge by the brook 

 inlet also discovered the biscuit and recognized its value as ready- 

 made food for their nestlings ; and for a half day this product of the 

 kitchen served as a center of activity for both Juncos and Grackles. 

 There were four eggs in this J unco's nest; they hatched out on 

 Jul}' 2, and on July 13 the young departed. It is worth while to 

 note that one infertile egg was left in the nest, as happened in the 

 case of a White-throated Sparrow's and also an Olive-backed 

 Thrush's nest in the neighborhood. 



* Field Sparrow. Spizella pusilla pusilla (Wils.) 



The Field Sparrow was not seen at Cranberry Lake by me in the 

 season of 1916, and according to Eaton is decidedly less common 

 than the Chippy in the northern part of the state. 



Chipping Sparrow. Spizella passerina passerina (Bech.) 



Length 5.3. Streaked reddish and gray above; light-gray below; breast 

 unspotted ; cap reddish. 



The Chipping Sparrow does not get far from human habitations. 

 At Barber Point a pair lived in the Partial Clearing, and spent their 

 time chiefly about the door of the cook-house and in the trees of the 

 campus. The male of this pair had two favorite song stations, one 

 on dead branches well up in one of the white birches, and the other 

 on a dead branch of a large maple in the middle of the campus, about 

 fifty yards away. He would sing from one of these stations for 

 a while, then fly to the other for another recital ; or perhaps he 

 would sport about the Camp with the female, or glean for a time 

 at the dooryard, and then seek one of these song stations for his 

 musical performance. Another pair of Chipping Sparrows had a 

 home in bushes in the meadow near the edge of the Burn. 



White-throated Sparrow. Zonotrichia albicollis (Gmel.) 



Length 6.7. Brown-streaked above; gray, unspotted, below; throat 

 brightly white ; crown black, center a narrow white stripe, with a strong 

 black stripe on each side, then a white stripe over and behind the eye; 

 yellow spot before each eye. 



The White-throated Sparrow is common in clearings of all kinds, 

 especially in the Burn and the Bog. Kells ('89, p. 184), writing 

 from the experience of a veteran collector, says : " The range of this 



