175
Petersborough, New Hampshire.
1898.
July 5 to
Aug. 15.
(No. 23)       
Spizella pusilla - Quite as numerous here as at Belmont & Arlington, Mass.  
Arlington, Mass. and decidedly more numerous
than about Concord, Mass; frequenting chiefly
the shrubbery along roadsides and old walls
and neglected pastures growing up to pines, spruces
etc. Some of these Petersborough birds are remarkably   
fine singers. One at the bog near the house
frequently gives two [delete]and sometimes[/delete] trills on
different keys, the second lower than the first.
Occasionally he adds a third trill on the same
key as the first running the three together.
The chip of pusilla is a little louder & fuller
than that of socialis.
  Melosposa fasciata - Generally distributed without regard to 
altitude and nearly everywhere the most
numerously represented of the Fringillidae. In full
song up to July 24th after which my record is as
follows: - July 28[1*] 29[1*] 31[1*] August 1[1*] 2[2*] 3[2*] 5[1*]
7[1*] (once only, at sunrise) 8[1*](sunrise) 9[2*](early morning)
10[1*](in full song from sunrise to 9 A.M.)
  All the birds of this region (including those on the
top of Pack Monadnock according to W. Dean) have
a peculiar, abrupt way of ending their songs. With
most of them the song ends with a gutteral wut-wut
but sometimes it is merely cut short before the usual
termination is reached. Their voices, however, seem 
to me uncommonly clear and sweet.