Lexington, Mass.
1916.
January 6
(No 8)
[January 6, 1916]

the olive green foliage of the cedars, even when perched
in leafless tree tops. They seemed no more likely to attract one's
notice than so many House Sparrows or Cedar Birds. At such times, indeed, they might easily have been mistaken for the former species. When thus
perched they remained for the most part inert, much
after the manner of Waxwings but clustering less thickly. 
When feeding they habitually scattered all over the tree or
shrub, each bird working quite independently of the rest
and, as a rule, in perfect silence although every now 
and then this might be broken by individual or general
utterance of vocal notes mostly too subdued to be audible
more than a few yards away and singularly diversified
in character, yet not sufficiently unlike that of other and
common New England birds to impress one as very novel.
Some closely resembled the ordinary husky call of the 
Purple, others the loud challenging of House Sparrows, while
a single rather loud, staccato note was very like that of Passer.