Sialia sial is . 



Concord, Mas 



1899. 

 April .7. 



Oct .12 



to 

 Oct. 51 . 



Came upon tliree Bluebirds in Kolden's pasture, a female 

 sitting on a rock and two males dancing and fluttering about 

 her witii wide spread tails and half-opened wings, warbling in 

 a deliciously soft undertone, each evidently striving to out- 

 do the other in the display of his beautiful plumage and ex- 

 quisite voice but neither showing the least ill ti^nper. It 

 was indeed a pretty picture with its setting of bleached grass 

 and a line of wasting snow drifts against the old stone wall 

 that foridod the backt^round. A Plicker was shouting in an oak 



ix uale Red-wings perched in an apple tree not far away. 



Bluebirds were more numerous about Concord this autumn 

 than they have been at any time within the past five or six 

 years, lior was this abundance confined to this one locality 

 for, as already mentioned, I saw upwards of fifty birds while 

 driving from Peterboro (N.K, ) to Groton (Lxass.) on the Sth 

 and an equal number between Groton and Lexington on the 10th. 

 Their nuanoers remained undiminished at concord up to the 22nd 

 after which I noted the species only on the 24th and 2oth, 

 getting no liovember records this year although I was in the 

 field constantly during the first ten days of the latter month 

 On October 13th I saw four Bluebirds in company with a 



