Jrfiswichj Trices. 
The Cardinal at Ipswich, Mass.— Last week a friend of mine at Ipswich 
wrote me that for the past two or three weeks there had been a beautiful 
strange bird which had been coming into his door-yard for food. The one 
that he described was practically red all over with a very bright crest on his 
head. At my earliest opportunity I visited the farm to find that when the 
bird came at noon he was a beautiful Cardinal. He has been there about 
a month up to the present writing and comes regularly to the door-yard 
for seeds and bread crumbs which are put out for the birds each day. He 
keeps very close to the house practically the entire time, living in some 
very thick clumps of spruce trees not far away. He has gradually become 
very tame so that he will come to within a few feet of the people who are 
feeding him. On the coldest mornings when the thermometer has regis- 
tered in the vicinity of zero his disposition has been of the most cheerful, 
seeming to mind the cold not in the least and jumping about very actively, 
even coming to the window and calling for the food if it has not been put 
out in time for him. 
There are a number of Myrtle Warblers, a few Song Sparrows and Chick- 
adees nearby and which occasionally alight in the trees which he seems to 
consider as his especial property. This apparently troubles him not a little 
and he usually drives the intruders away after watching them for a minute 
or two. 
I thought this item might be of interest, as the Cardinal is almost never 
recorded in New England, and in the course of twenty years of bird study 
in this vicinity I have never had the fortune to meet with one before. — 
Frank A. Brown, Beverly, Mass. 
Auk 26, Apr-1909 ,p» / Qlf. 
