Cambridge, Mass.
1899.
March.
(No. 7).
two other occasions. The fruit of the Parkman's apple
continued the chief attraction for the Flickers through
the month. The first "shouting" was heard by W. Deane in
the Botanic Garden on the 9th. Two birds were shouting
near Mason Street and one in the garden on the 27th, two
on Appleton Street near Wyman place on the 28th.
There must be a good many Flickers in Cambridge this sea-
son, more, I think, than at any time within the past
forty years.
11. Accipiter velox. A large female circling low over the
garden on the 24th. This bird without much doubt was
the same that twice visited the garden earlier in the
winter.
12. Ampelis cedrorum. None appeared in the garden this month
but a flock of 17 were seen on the Charles Deane estate,
Sparks Street on the morning of the 31st. (A flock of 12
visited our garden on the morning of April 1 and greedily attacked
the fruit of the Parkman's apple although it is now withered and tasteless.)
13. Passerella iliaca. One found dead on the lawn in front
of the Brick Block on Sparks Street on the morning of the
31st. It may have flown against something during the
snow storm of the preceding night.
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