Cambridge Mass.
1899.
March.
(No.5).
2, 3, 6, 9, 14, 15, 16, 18, 24, 25, 27, 28 [delete]and[/delete] 29th, & 31st. It
was evidently the same bird that visited us in February.
It sang in low, broken tones on the 3rd and 27th, rather
loudly and clearly, but not quite perfectly, on the 29th.
It was very tame and familiar coming close about the Mu-
seum, once alighting on the bulkhead and on the morning
of the 18th feeding for sometime in company with House
Sparrows directly under one of the windows. The ground
was covered with snow at the time and the White-throat
uncovered some grain which lay beneath the snow by jump-
ing first forward and then quickly backward, precisely
as the Fox Sparrow does when scratching.
  6. Passer domesticus. Present during the whole month in
large numbers feeding, as before, on bread put out from
the kitchen and on grain in the pigeon loft. The House
Sparrows which were with the White-throat on the occasion
mentioned in the last paragraph did not once attempt to 
scratch away the snow but merely pecked into it at random
in search for the grain hidden beneath. I doubt it they know how 
to scratch. Towards the end of the month a few House
sparrows were seen carrying building material about, but
they have not begun their demonstrative and noisy court-
ships as yet.
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