1892
July 16
(No 5)
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord.- A Chipping Sparrow which has passed the
entire season in our orchard and which during May and
June sang in the normal manner began some two weeks
ago splitting his song into three sections, thus .... .... .....
The result has pleased him so much that he now
divides it into from four to seven sets of notes with
a slight but very marked interval between. I remember
a Junco at Mt. Watatic which did the same thing
[margin]Odd song of
Chippy[/margin]

  The Young Orioles still give the here-we-are call
but less and less frequently as the season advances.
I watched an old female of this species eat cherries
yesterday. She operated on them in a deliberate,
somewhat fastidious manner piercing the skin with
her sharp bill and then slowly tasting and swallowing
the juice and perhaps some of the pulp also. In
no instance was the cherry removed from the stem.
This was in marked contrast to the behavior of
the greedy Robins about her, the Robins first plucking
the cherry and then swallowing it whole not
without some difficulty.
[margin]Young Orioles[/margin]