Wood 
■u.shes 
/ 
"Whippoorwills 
Odd Song; 
of 
calling but none sang. The Cat-bird sang for three minutes, 
and one of the Wood Thrushes for fourteen minutes, 
after the first Whippoorwill began. The last song of the 
Wood Thrush was heard at precisely 8.01 ?/hen it was nearly 
dark. There were two Whippoorwills, both in the woods on 
'the ridge near Bow Meadow. The number of repetitions of 
their notes varied from three to twenty-five. They did 
not seem to move about as much as usual. The Chestnut-sided 
Warbler which sang here regularly a week ago was silent 
this evening. 
A Chipping Sparrow which has passed the entire 
season in our orchard and which during May and June sang in 
Young 
Orioles 
the normal manner, began some two ?/eeks ago splitting his 
©33ig into three sections, thus .... .. The 
result has pleased him so much that he now divides it into 
from four to seven sets of notes with a slight but very 
marked interval between. I remember a Junco at Mt. Watabic 
which did the same thing/] 
The Young Orioles still give the here-we-are call 
but less and less frequently as the season advances. I 
watched an old female of this species eat cherries yesterday. 
She operated on them in a deliberate, somewhat fastidious 
manner, piercing the skin with her sharp bill and then 
slowly tasting and swallowing the juice and perhaps some of 
no 
the pulp also. In one instance was the cherry removed from 
the stem. This was in marked contrast to the behavior of 
the greedy Robins about her, the Robins first plucking the 
cherry and then swallowing it whole, not without some difficulty 
