74

Concord, Mass.
1916
Aug. 30
to
Nov. 4

Cape May Warblers.

then sitting. Nevertheless it proved impracticable to count
them accurately at this or any other time for not all were 
ever in sight at once although as many as five or six sometimes
showed themselves there perhaps in the same tree top or even on 
the same branch, while several others might simultaneously
be less plainly seen, or merely heard chirping, amid dense
foliage not far off. Some were almost constantly
engaged by couples in sportive pursuit of one another,
during which they dashed hither and thither at top speed,
alternately appearing in open spaces & disappearing among
bordering thickets. Yet even the more widely scattered
birds kept ever sufficiently in touch with all the rest
to follow the same direction pursued by them while 
drifting back & forth. As has been stated there must
have been altogether at least a dozen of them & it
is not improbable that there may have been quite half