Vermont Botanical and Bird Club 17 



NOTES ON THE PLANTS OF THE WEST RIVER VALLEY 



Leston A. Wheeler. 



Additional collections for 1914 are: Lycopodium clavatum var. 

 megastaychyum. Calix humilis, Carex lurida var. gracilis, Sagittaria 

 latijolia forma hastata. 



The following, new to the writer, were collected in 1915: Aster 

 macrophyllus, Impatiens pallida. Chenopodium album var. viride. Ane- 

 mone cylindrica. Scirpus sylvaticus var. Bissellii, S. polyphyllus, Ame- 

 lanchier sanguinea, Ambrosia triflda. Delphinium Ajacis, Sedum ter- 

 natum, Polygonum Careyi, Datura stramonium, Pycnanthemum inca- 

 num. Desmodium Dillenii, D. rotundifolium, Polygala verticillata var. 

 ambigua. P. Sanguinea, Lechea villosa, Cyperus esculentus. Phlox 

 maculata, Potentilla pumila, Juncus militaris. 



New stations for Viola lanceolata and V, cucullata x. fimbriatula 

 were discovered. 



LIFE HISTORY OF A YOUNG CHIPPING SPARROW 



Mrs. A. B. Morgan. 



June 21, 1915, a young chipping sparrow brought to me at 2 p. m. 

 From that time till dusk fed it six times with cracker and milk, 10 

 small grasshoppers, two flies, three millers. It weighed one-half 

 ounce, tail is just starting. Cheeps very constantly, if hungry. Can fly 

 blindly from the top of box to the floor. Seeks to get out of the box 

 and evidently wants to perch on something, will sit contentedly on my 

 finger. 



June 22. — Wakes up the household at 4.30 by its insistent cries for 

 food. I give it a generous feed of cracker and milk which silences it 

 for an hour when the cries begin again. All through that day I feed 

 it at intervals of half an hour with cracker and milk and small grass- 

 hoppers. Unless the food is thrust well into its throat it cannot swallow. 



June 23. — Woke us even earlier, piping incessantly. Will take 

 food oftener, and power of flight increases so that it is able to fly out 

 of a box 10 inches high. Responds to my voice and footsteps, climbs 

 on my red sweater and sits contentedly on my shoulder. I feed him a 

 big grasshopper which distresses him and for the rest of that day 

 refuses to eat any more grasshoppers, but relishes his bread and milk. 

 Towards night stretches, preens his feathers, and looks around to see 



