Scolecopha&us carol inus 
Concord, 
1898. 
Oct. 5. 
( 2 ). 
Oct .4 . 
Oct. 6. 
I 1899. 
| Nov. 1-11 
Also 21, 
2-3 & 2G . 
Mass . 
identified only Rusties. I have never seen anything like so 
large a roost of this species before nor do I remember ever 
before seeing a roost among herbaceous vegetation, but always 
in button bushes or low willows or maples. 
Passed the Blackbird roost at 4.30 P.M. About 300 birds 
there and others arriving every minute. Cow birds heard 
amor$g them. 
As I was passing the Blackbird roost at 4.20 P.M. on my 
way up river a flock of Rusties came in. I think they were 
the first to arrive for I neither savf nor heard any others 
near the place. Above I saw a number of flocks coming from 
the direction of Concord. Most of them passed over towards 
the roost but one flock containing fully 200 birds alighted 
in a maple on the river bank. I paddled under them and looked 
them over carefully with my glass. As far as I could make out 
they were all Cow birds a nd I now believe that a considerable 
proportion of the birds which resort nightly to the roost be- 
long to this species. 
A solitary bird in the maples on the river bank opposite 
Podjlsland, on the morning of the 9th. It was uttering the 
medley of jingling notes which seems to represent the song. 
This is the third instance of the occurrence of the species 
in November which I have noted at Concord. 
