Habia ludoviciana . 
Concord, 
1899. 
May 20. 
( 2 ). 
June . 
Mass. Love call. Nest -building . 
up a low, tender call ( wo 1 -e , wo 1 -e or wo i -e-e ) which was also 
occasionally given by the females. The female at the cabin 
was collecting dry grass at the river bank. Her mate finally 
left her still at work and flying off to the east end of the 
Hill began singing almost out of hearing. Earlier in the 
morning (the nest building was at 8 A. LI. ) I saw the pair at 
the cabin probing the blossoms of a black oak with their big 
bills flitting from branch to branch and keeping up the wbi- e 
call . 
On the afternoon of June 2nd a male sang nearly an hour 
without changing his perch which was in the top of a large 
chestnut on Holden's Hill. 
