SPRING ARRIVAL OF THE BIRDS. QT 
upper mandible. The albicollis has a black crown with 
white lateral lines, the black meeting at the back of the 
head, and the white in front. Both have white bars 
across the wings. The albicollis has also a pure white 
throat, with yellow on the edge of the wings, and also 
bright yellow lines from the bill to the eye. The other 
is without this brilliant yellow. These sparrows are 
often found in company, both in the spring and fall 
migrations. 
Aprit 24.—Not another sound in nature is so clear 
and joyous, so full of cheer and hearty greeting, as that 
of the highhole or golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes 
auratus). The call is a musical “ha! ha! ha!” full of 
laughter and good fellowship, a most friendly spring 
greeting, in keeping with the pleasant April days in 
which one will first hear it. These few hearty notes 
are something like the resonant call notes which we 
first hear from the robin, and if not singing, these 
utterances are as sweet as a song, and should entitle the 
bird to be classed with the oscines. A few days later, 
when the preparations for housekeeping begin, these 
birds have a more subdued laughter, just as joyous per- 
haps, but less loud and boisterous. Sometimes two or 
three couples of them will play “hide and seek ” around 
the branches or trunks of the trees, and say “yarrup, 
wake up; yarrup, wake up,” with a rapidity not easily 
transcribed, indulging at the same time in much other 
small talk understood only by themselves. Many times 
IT have lain under the trees watching their playful 
