Breezy Point, Warren, N.H.
1894.
June 23           
  Another fine, warm day very heavy, however, with a hint of
forest fires in the air.
  My birds eggs & notes kept me closely occupied until
evening when, just after tea, Faxon and I walked down
the valley for rather more than a mile, following the road.
Less than half - a - mile below the house the bird fauna
changes quite decidedly and abruptly and Wilson's Thrushes,
King birds, Least Flycatchers, Lady's Birds and Savanna
Sparrows, none of which seem to occur about Merrills, become
numerous. We heard all of these except the Indigo Bird to-
night and also a Wood Pewee going through its sad
vesper chant in a "sugar orchard".
  While standing in the road on the edge of this grove of maples                       
it occurred to me to try the effect of an imitation of the                      
call of Glaucidium which, on Trinidad, is seen to excite                  
and attract about the caller all the small birds of the immediate        
neighbourhood. To my no small surprise it worked equally                
well here. Indeed the effect was little short of startling
for almost at the first call the Wood Pewee, two Least
Flycatchers and a Robin came dashing about me in
great excitement each bird uttering its characteristic
alarm notes quite as loudly and excitedly as if I
had discovered and climbed to its nest and young.
Half a mile further on I tried the experiment again on
a Least Flycatcher which had just gone to bed in an
isolated apple tree after talking its last song flight. Instantly
the bird began whit-ing anxiously and at the second
call it darted down towards me and then turned back
The success of this experiment seems to me most interesting &