Bd«. Obs. near Graylock Mi . Berkshire 
Co. Maes. June 28- July 16. W. Faxon 
37. Pipilo erythrophthalmus. Towhee. — Not uncommon in favorable 
places, e. g ., the shrubby pastures on the ‘Winter Road’ in the neighbor- 
hood of the North Adams Reservoir and the cleared ‘sprout-land’ on 
the southeastern side of Graylock. Here it is found in the favorite 
haunts of the Mourning Warbler, and extends up to a high level, in fact 
as far as the forest has been cut off. Mr. Brewster found but one pair of 
Towhees during his visit to this region in 1883.* It is probable that they 
are increasing with the disappearance of the forest. 
* Auk, i, 13, 1884. Auk, VI. April, 1889. p. 101 
Towhee. On March 22, my friend, Mr. John De Q. Briggs,^ saw two 
Towhees at Plymouth, Mass. As they do not usually arrive in Mass- 
achusetts before the 20th of April, it is probable that they had wintered 1 
that region. - Arthur C. Comey, Cambridge, Mass. 
S Auk, XIX, July, 1902, p. 
A Chewink in Winter at Ashland, Mass. — On December 29, 1903, at 
Ashland, Middlesex, Co., Massachusetts, I had the good fortune to run 
across a male Chewink (Pipilo erythrophthalmus). He was trying to find 
food in the snow-covered road, and was so tame that I approached within 
a few teet before he flew off to some nearby shrubbery. I watched him 
closely for some time to see whether he was injured, and so unable to 
migrate, but he seemed, on the contrary, very active. He uttered the 
usual call-note once or twice. — Roger N. Baldwin, Cambridge , Mass. 
Auk, XXI, Apr., 1904, p. z2X. 
Pipilo erythrophthalmus . 
1904. * — Cambridge , Mass. 
Dec . 5 . A male Towhee in full plumage was seen on this date, 
by Glover M. Allen a'nd John T. Nichols in Librarian 
Lane's grounds on Oxford Street. 
