Sparrows feeding in front of, the caloin. 



Concord, Llass. 



1398. A dismal day with piercing H.E. wind and thickly falling 



April 5. sno;v which loaded down the trees and bushes and covered the 

 leaf- or grass-strewn surfaces to a depth of several inches 

 but y/herever the unfrozen gro-ond was bare melted as fast as 

 it strucK. 



There was a fine flocl;; of Sparrows assembled in front of 



the cabin this raorning and moat of than spent the entire d.aj 



there eating , anr^arentlv. without cessation . This, I thin};, 



snow- 



is their usual habit when, during a storm, they are luoky e- 

 nough to find an abundance of food. During the fine weather 

 of the past wee/K they have visited the seedbed only thrice 

 dally - at raorning, noon, find a little before svwset, there 

 having been an interval of two or three hours in the forenoon 

 and one of equal length iii the afternoon when the seeds were 

 wholly neglected. 



