Cambridge, Mass.
February.
1899.
(No 7).
passed the base of the branch on which the suet hangs
when a Sparrow that had been feeding at the suet flew
away. The Creeper at once turned about and descended the
vertical trunk for a distance of nearly two feet, moving
head downward, like a Nuthatch, and with perfect apparent
ease, although rather slowly and cautiously. On reaching
the branch he followed it out to the suet which he at
once attacked but before he had taken many mouthfuls a 
sparrow came and frightened him away. This was the only
occasion in February when I saw a Creeper at the suet.
The bird noted on the 21st sang twice and in tones so
loud and clear that I heard him distinctly as I sat at
my desk in the museum with the windows closed. 
3. Ampelis cedrorum.  A solitary Cedar bird with wax tipped
wings appeared in the crab apple tree at 1 P.M., Feb. 1st.
It was doubtless the same bird which we saw in the gar-
den, January 30th. Strangely enough it did not appear to
notice the unusually abundant fruit which still hangs on
our Parkman's apple and on some Viburnum opulus  bushes,
and still more strangely this fruit has not attracted any
other birds of the same species. Perhaps the February 
flight of Cedar birds did not take place this year. I 
certainly have not heard that it did.
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