Concord, Mass.
1910.
June 25
(No 3)
[June 25, 1910]

Notes of the "Kickers"

doubled, sometimes threbled [trebled] and twice repeated no
less than five times without pause thus: - queer - queah
or quee - quer - queeah or quee - quee - quee - quee - queeah.
One or two birds uttered what was very nearly
the normal song as I remember it in former
years but with less then the usual number of
kic - kics. Thus it was either kic - kic - queeah
or kic - kic - kic - queah. The bird nearest us
used the kic - kic notes only a very few times and
never uttered more than two of them at a time.
Evidently he was not in full song and we
thought that he was calling rather then
singing as, indeed, was apparently the case with
one or two of the others. Neither Faxon nor I
can remember ever hearing the queah used so much
in this way before or that we ever heard it given