the tip of the upper mandible and also a conspicuous whitish 
glandular excrescence on each side of the lower mandible 
at its base. This excrescence is flattened and about as 
large as O . 
Birds sing 
freely 
Evening Yfalk up Estabrook Road 
After tea this evening I took a walk up the 
Estabrook Road to Clark’s and beyond through Dutton’s lane 
to the swamp where the brook crosses the path. The weather 
was cool with a puff of East wind every now and then. The 
sunset was glorious and unusually prolonged and varied with 
great clouds piled up in the west changing constantly in 
color, form and arrangement. There was almost if not quite 
as much and as vigorous bird-singing as one would hear of an 
early June evening; Robins, Cat-birds, Song Sparrows, Black¬ 
billed Cuckoos, Least Flycatchers, Bluebirds — all these in 
full song — and everywhere throughout the close-cropped 
pastures rose the tender, soothing chant of the Grass Finch, 
fm Dutton’s lane I heard a Nashville Warbler in full song, 
. . only instance which I remember of July singing in this 
Wa rbler ' 1 ' 1 ' 6 ' part ^ New England, the Nashville (warbler)being one of the 
first of our birds to become silent. A Thrasher also 
. sang freely near this lane for ten minutes or more and in 
Thmshe]: in 
SSlisk Ine swamp I heard a Chestnut-sided Warbler and a Wood Thrush 
besides a Maryland Yellow-throat and the flight songs of 
several Oven-birds/^ 
