Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1901.
February.
(7).
suspected, was the head of the Sparrow. I have put this
head into the collection.
  On the 6th and 10th I heard the Shrike in full song,
and on the 20th Leonard Beard saw one eating a Sparrow
in the same cedar tree.
  3. Passer domesticus.
  The English Sparrows have been present in varying
numbers and at varying intervals. Flocks of fifteen or
twenty have been the greatest numbers. For two or three
days at a time they have been absent, and on the next
day their hideous chirping would be heard all the morning
among the lilacs.
  4. Corvus americanus.
  Every few days through the month, one, two or three
Crows have passed over the place or alighted in the lin-
dens to caw awhile before resuming their flight.
  5. Megascops asio.
  A Screech Owl has taken up his abode in a hole high
up in the elm by the Thorpes' gate on Brattle Street.
On the evening of the 24th I heard him hooting in or
near the garden for an hour and a half, at intervals of
about half a minute. The note was a very musical,
plaintive hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo, uttered rapidly about
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