Cambridge, Mass.
1899.
January.  
(No. 11).                
nearly always seen together, either in the dense thicket of
lilacs at the rear of the house or near the kitchen where they
and the English Sparrows were liberally supplied each morning 
with toast or stale loaf bread broken into small pieces. They
showed neither fear nor aversion towards the English sparrows
but mingled with them on apparently friendly terms and, so
far as we observed, they were neither molested or even threat-
ened by them. Like the English sparrows they appeared to pre-
fer bread to anything else although they ate some millet
seed which I scattered under the lilacs. During December the
white-throated bird frequently answered my whistled imitation
of the Peabody call and once fairly started he sometimes sang
dozens of times in succession in fairly full clear tones; af-
ter January came in I failed to get any responce (sic) [response] from him.