Bethel, Maine.
1913. 
Nov. 15-22  
(No 4)

7. Hesperiphona vesperatina. - About 9.30 A.M. on the 21st [November 21, 1913] - a 
clear, mild day with light westerly winds - I was on my way 
down the driveway from Dr. Gehring's house to the "brown cottage" 
intending to spend the forenoon writing there in my room when 
there came to my ears a succession of unfamiliar whistling in 
notes very loud, shrill & penetrating yet without rather musical 
or, at least pleasing, in quality and best rendered, I thought, 
as cree-e, cree-e-e, cree-e-e. They reminded me of the 
squealing flight calls of young Golden Plover but were not closely
like them. On first hearing them I said to myself "that 
cannot well be anything but an evening Grosbeak." A moment 
later I saw the bird flying through some shrubbery but 
got only the merest glympse [glimpse] at it through intervening branches 
seeing only that it was of about the size & shape of the 
birds I had in mind. Its calling ceased almost immediately 
& I looked for it about the place in vain so went into the