Cambridge, Mass.
1899.
February.
(No.6).
foliage. Possibly only one bird had adopted this prac-
tice, though we have reason to think that there were more
[delete]for[/delete] but on no occasion was more than one engaged at it at
the same time. He worked very busily and steadily, mak-
ing a trip every minute or two and never using the same 
hiding place twice although he often took several frag-
ments to different parts of the same tree. He tamped
them firmly into place with his bill before leaving them
and sometimes returned, shortly afterwards, apparently
to make sure that they were all right. Once he was seen
to remove a piece which, only a few minutes before, he
had fixed with unusual care. Some of the fragments were 
hidden in the tree in which the lump of suet hung but
the majority were taken distances varying from ten to
fifty yards.
  Our tailless bird, sine cauda, was seen almost daily
up to the 17th after which he disappeared. 
  I did not hear the phoebe-whistle during the month.
2. Certhia f. americana. A single Creeper seen on the 17th,
20th and 21st. On the 26th two birds appeared together
in the elm over the driveway. One of them did something
which I have never seen before nor even, I think, heard
of. He was ascending the trunk of the tree and had just
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