Junco hvemalis. 
Concord, 
Mass. Early spring song. 
1898. 
The Junco s, engaged on the grass seed in front of our 
April 1. 
door to the number of no less than fifteen, were twittering 
and singing uttering a great variety of low warbling and 
chuckling sounds interpolated between the repit it ions of the 
trill the whole reminding no forciblv of the song of a singing 
Mouse. Why is it that this song, so infinitely superior to 
the summer trill, is heard only in early spring? 
Peterborough, New Hampshire. 
1898. 
My record for the region lying about Ben Mere farm, 
July 5 
to 
Aug .15. 
| July 7*( Cunningham Pond), 20 juv., first plumage (in field 
near our house), 21* (Cunningham Pond), 234( valley below house )j 
indicates that the Junco is not common at the middle or lower 
levels , but on July 24th W. Deane found it in great abundance 
along the bare crest of Pack Monadnock, hearing there, he 
feels sure, the songs of at least a dozen different birds. 
1899. 
Found in greatly reduced numbers this season and only on 
July 
& 
August . 
the top and upper slopes of Pack Monadnock. This fact taken 
in connection with the scarcity of migrants in Eastern Mass. 
last spring shows that the species must have suffered severe- 
ly during the February storms in the South. 
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