Zono tricliia albicollis 
Cambridge, The Garden, Mass. 
1899. For several years past I have cultivated a rather large 
Oct. patch of prince's feather ( Poly g onum orientale ). The seeds 
of this plant ripen in October and attract many birds of vari- 
ous hinds as well as, unfortunately , rats and mice. The 
White-throats are exceedingly fond of these seeds and during 
the present month from one or two to a dozen birds might be 
found daily feasting on them in company with the still more 
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numerous House Sparrows. The male White-throats sang rather 
freely and at all hours but usually in subdued and somewhat 
broken tones. W. Deane's list 
fallows:- 5 4 , 10% llo%, 12 s , 
2(f , 21* , 22 J , 23 3 % 24 7 , 25 ? 
of their varying numbers is as 
15 s ', 14% 16', 17' , 18°, 19*-, 
2 0% 27% 28% 29% 30% 3l' . 
Cambridge, Mass. 
1899. Ho White-throats were seen in the garden this month and 
December. I doubt if any are passing the winter in our neighborhood, 
but I found one chirping in the deep, brush-grown hollow be- 
low the grave yard to the S.W. of Fresh Pond on the 10th. 
