Pi-nil o ervthronhthalmus . 
Peterborough, New Hampshire. 
1398 . Excepting on Martha's Vineyard I have never seen the 
July 5 Towhee so numerous as it has been this season about Peter- 
to 
Aug. 15. borough. Its favorite haunts here are the neglected pastures 
where white pines, red spruces, hemlocks and gray or paper 
birches are springing up in dense clusters or thickets inter- 
spersed with openings filled with high blueberry bushes, but 
it is also common along wood edges and brush-grown roadsides. 
In many places in the pastures I have had two or even three 
males in sight at once perched on the topmost sprays of young 
pines or hemlocks, singing in apparent response to one another. 
The forms of song oftenest heard here are sweet -birjl , trt-ii” 
t-.i-ti-ti-ti -ti -ti-ti and Ker - chee . chi- i-i-i.-i.-i. . The best 
rendering of the call note has seemed to me on careful study 
to be kur-wee given in shrill yet somewhat guttural and very 
querulous tones, the second syllable strongly accented and 
ending with a rising inflection as if the bird were asking a 
question. 
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I think the Towhee must be 11 two -brooded” for although I 
saw numbers of young on wing July 11th and shortly afterwards, 
the old males continued in full song everywhere through July. 
My record of August singing is as follows:- Aug. lx-, 2*, 5*, 
9*( in full, continued song from S to 9.15 A.M. weather cloudy 
and misty at the time). 
