Concord, Mass.
Ball's Hill
1900
May 18
(No 3)
 song at the farm, one in the orchard in front
of the barn, the other in the run.
  I heard the Golden-winged Warblers, two at
the farm, one in an elm behind Bensen's house.
Golden wing
Warblers
  During the past four days we have had constantly 
in front of the cabin two Lincoln's Finches & a White-
crowned Sparrow which one of the Lincoln's was here seven
days, arriving on the 11th. All three of these birds departed
last night the Lincoln's which I saw this morning
being half way between the cabin & the bars &
evidently a new comer. The three birds which have
been staying with us so long have been fed bountifully
with millet seed and by this potent attraction have
been kept constantly within the confines of the narrow
belt of bushes which extend from the corner bit to 
the old landing a distance of about thirty yards.
The Lincoln's Finch which arrived on the 11th was from 
the first so exceptionally tame & confiding as to lead
me to believe that he was the same individual which
spent six days in the same place last year. This
spring he has been so trustful and phlegmatic as an
average Song Sparrow. He has sung freely but I have
heard him give only the Junco songs (both forms), the
House Wren song & that of the Purple Finch & Long-billed Marsh Wren.
His rendering of these struck Thayer, who has
listened to him with great interest, as being more
or less spiritualized the song of the Purple Finch in especial 
being infinitely finer in quality than that of its real author
though very similar in tone. Exquisite delicacy of treatment
seems to be the chief characteristic of this Lincoln's Sparrow's rendering
of all his themes save that of the Junco which is as woodeny
Lincoln's 
Finch &
White crowned
Sparrow.
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