Certhla _f . ainerioana. 



Cambridge, Mass. 



1399. at once attacked but before he had talcen many inoutlifuls a 

 February. 3parro« caiae and frightened hin away. This was the only 

 (No. 2) oGoaslon in February '^hen I sax a Creeper at the suet. 



The bird noted on the 21st sang twice and in tones so loud and 

 clear that I heard hin distinctly as I sat at my desk in the 

 museuia with the windows closed. 



Llarch birds in the Garden. 

 A single Creeper seen on the 3, 9, 15, 17 and 25th. On 

 March. the 29th four birds wore seen together in the large willows 

 at the W. end of the garden. They cauie flying across the 

 garden in quick succession and when all were assembled chased 

 each other around the trunk and aiaoiig the braiiches. The wil- 

 l07; contained, for a brief time, not only these Creepers out 

 four Chickadees and a Dovmy Woodpecker. The full song of the 

 Creeper was heard on fehe 9th and 15th and on the morning of 

 thd 29th a bird sang at short, regular intervals for nearly 

 an hour and in tones as loud and clear as I have ever heard 

 in the Maine woods. On the 17th I saw a Brown Creeper run 

 doY/n the lower part of the trunk of an elm for a distance o^ 

 two feet or more to the ground on reaching which it hopped 

 abo'uit Tjrecisely like Spizella social is , stopping every now and 

 then to pick up and swallow a fragment of suet which had 

 fallen fi-om above. 



