1906.
March 15
(2)
Cambridge,Mass.
  A remarkably handsome Butcher bird, very light in
general coloring and with deep black head markings, appeared
in our garden this forenoon during a snow storm. It
sang almost continuously for fifteen or twenty minutes.
Its repertoire was limited and uninteresting. Most of 
the notes that it used were disagreeably harsh or shrill
and some of them were repeated a dozen times or
more with little or no variation. Some of them 
were very jay-like. All were given slowly and
deliberately with distinct and often rather wide
intervals between each utterance and the next following 
one. The bird's voice was louder and stronger than
common.