Lexington, Mass.
1916.
January 6
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[January 6, 1916]

I did not once hear them make any sound during flight.
This they performed in loose order, sometimes well abreast,
but oftener one following the other & at intervals so wide
apart that the strung-out flock was not less than
thirty or forty feet in length. Otherwise they flew not unlike
Pine Grosbeaks, with well marked but not exceptionally
deep undulations, and I noticed that they were given 
to descending abruptly from the upper air in much
the same meteoric fashion, on half closed wings.
  As has been said the Evening Grosbeaks watched
to-day impressed me as exceptionally inconspicuous birds,
partly by reason of their subdued coloring and habitual silence,
also because of their comparative inertness. Even when
most busily engaged in feeding they displayed scarce more
animation than so many Cedar birds of which, moreover, they
constantly reminded me by their erect, graceful poses