Spizella soci al i s . 
Concord, 
w„ q Peculiar Song. 
i<UGA> O tO • 
1893. 
Last year a Chipping Sparrow at the Buttrich' s Began at 
June 26. 
about this season to sing in a curious manner splitting his 
song first into two or three, afterwards into four separate 
phrases. When the Chippies returned this spring I listened 
this peculiar song out up to June 2d, when I went to Conn., 
heard nothing' out the normal song from the two males that had 
settled on the farm. On fljy return this evening, however, I 
h&ard the split song and found the bird singing on his old 
station, a dead branch of an apple tree in the orchard. He 
divided his song into four parts. 
