Sialia slal is . 



Concord, Mass. Beaut ifvil song. 



1398. I landed at Swift's shore arid walked throi^h t'ne woods 



March 13. where I heard a Brown Creer>er to the opening farming land be- 

 yond where Song Sparrows were singing and a Bluebird, balanc- 

 ing on the topmost spray of an isolated apple tree, was pour- 

 ing out his very soul in tender, plainti^^e waraling. Again 

 and again, dozens of times in quick sucoession or at intervals 

 of a half-niimite or so, his rich notes came to ray delighted 

 ears; now clear, pure and exquisitely modulated, next muffled 

 by the rushing wind that swept the gray-brown fields. It is 

 not often that one can have hear a Bluebird at his very best 

 and this is the first time that I have had the privilege the 

 present season. 



^eterboroiigh, How Hampshire. 



1898. Several broods of young with their parents seen at dif- 



July 6 to^ ferent places in fields or pastures. A male in full song Ju- 

 Av^.lO. ) ly 17th, another warbling feebly August 9th. 



