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Peterborough, New Hampshire.
1898.
July 5 to
Aug. 15.
(No. 24)
  Zonotrichia albicollis. -  Two males sang through July at the
bog just below our house, a third at Cunningham
Pond and a fourth at the base of Pack Monadnock.
Those were all that I met with. They continued
in full song up to (and including) July 29th after
which they maintained absolute silence.
 Pipilo erythrophthalmus. - Excepting on Martha's Vineyard I
have never seen the Towhee so numerous as it has
been this season about Peterborough. Its favourite
haunts here are the neglected pastures where white 
pines, red spruces, hemlocks and gray or paper birches
are springing up in dense clusters or thickets
interspersed with openings filled with high blueberry 
bushes but it is also common along wood edges
and brush grown roadsides. In many places
in the pastures I have had two or even three males 
in sight at once perched on the topmost sprays 
of young pines or hemlocks, singing in apparent response 
to one another. The forms of song oftenest heard
here are Sweet-bird, tit-ti-ti-ti-ti-ti-ti-ti-ti and
Ker-chee given in shrill yet somewhat gutteral and
very querulous tones the second syllable strongly accented
and ending with a rising inflection as if the bird
were calling a question.
  I think the Towhee must be "two-brooded" for
although I saw numbers of young on wing July 11th
& shortly afterwards the old males continued in full
song everywhere through July. My record of August