Cambridge 
1899. 
January . 
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The two White-throated Sparrows were ’with us during the 
whole of December last and up to January Sth when they depart- 
ed suddenly and ’without obvious reason reappearing, however, 
on the 15th and again on the 18th. One was in full plumage, 
the other a dull colored bird with ashy throat. They were 
nearly always seen together, either in the dense thicket of 
lilacs in the rear of the house or near the kitchen where they 
and the English Sparrows were liberally supplied each morning 
with toast or stale loaf bread broken into small pieces. They 
showed neither fear nor aversion towards the English Sparrows 
but mingled with them on apparently friendly terms and, so 
far as we observed, they were never molested or even threat- 
ened by them. Like the English Sparrows they appeared to pre- 
fer bread to anything else although they also ate some millet 
seed which I scattered under the lilacs. During December the 
white-throated bird frequently answered my whistled imitation 
of the peabody call and once fairly started he sometimes sang 
dozens of times in succession in fairly full clear tones; af- 
ter January oaine in I failed to get any responce from him. 
