CONCORD* 
1892 
May 
6 
Grasshopper 
Sparrow 
arrives 
W alk to Damsdale via. Derby’s lane at 10.30 A*M. 
A Yellow-winged Sparrow singing in the field opposite the 
Buttrickfe* — an early arrival for this species. Following 
up the sound I found the bird sitting, in the usual 
crouching attitude, among the upper branches of an apple- 
tree. 
Grass Finches and Least Flycatchers were singing 
in or near all the orchards along ray path and I heard a 
Bobolink in Derby’s meadowTj Opposite the entrance to Derby’s 
lane a Brown Thrasher, sitting in the top of a gray birch 
was flooding the air with music. I sat down on a wall near 
him and listened long and attentively, comparing the perfor¬ 
mance with that of the Song Thrush of England which is still 
Brown Thrasher 
fresh in my memory. The two are very similar but that of 
of our bird is, a,s I confessed to myself this morning, un¬ 
deniably inferior. It is more rapid and od nfused and has 
fewer round, full notes. 
Entering Derby’s lanej£ heard Ruby-crowned Kinglets 
all around me in the young hemlocks scolding and occasionally 
one singing. There was also a Hermit Thrush. A little 
further on in gray birches above the path ware more Kinglets, 
a Yellow Palm Warbler, a Chestnut-sided and a Nashville 
Warbler. More Palm Warblers and many Yellow-rumps along 
the edges of the alders in the meadow below. 
As I approached these alders a Bittern rose above 
Song of the 
