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Concord, Mass.
1913.
Aug. 26 
to 
Nov.13 
(No 25)

62. Spizella monticola. - First noted on October 29 [October 29, 1913] when a single 
bird was seen in our Berry Pasture. After this I met
with them almost daily (but never numerously, no more 
than 2 or 3 being ever encountered together) at the Farm where
they fed chiefly on the ground, among rank weeds, and
also, not infrequently, on the seeds of grey birches gleaned 
among the tops and upper branches of these trees. I often 
heard their tinkling, musical tweedle-tweedle calls and
faint lisping ones but not the song. Returning to Concord 
later in the month of November I found them somewhat 
more numerously seeing 6 together in one place and 2 
in another - on the 25th [November 25, 1913].

63. Spizella socialis.- During September and the first half of October 
I could almost always be sure of finding 30 or 40 
Chippies [Chipping Sparrow] in our peach orchard where they feed among 
some rank weeds on the ground and flew up into
the trees with rather loudly fluttering wings on my 
near approach. Scattered & for the most part single 
birds were also occasionally seen feeding in the tops of 
grey birches in company with Black-poll [Blackpoll Warbler] & other Warblers 
but whether, like these, they were devouring the swarming 
birch Aphidae or merely the seeds of the birches, I failed 
to ascertain. On October 16 [October 16, 1913] I saw upwards of 30 
birds in one flock and on the 17th [October 17, 1913] about 12. After 
that they diminished rapidly in numbers and the 
last (a solitary bird) occurred on the 27th [October 27, 1913] of 
the month. About 9 a.m. on October 1

64. Spizella pusilla. - Noted only on October 15 [October 15, 1913] when a single bird 
in company with Juncos was seen among grey birches at the Farm.