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Flight- 
song 
of 
Swamp 
Sparrow 
Cessation 
of 
bird songs 
in company over the meadow above Lee J s Bridge, a fine sight. 
One was a red-tailed bird, the other two uniform dark brown 
above and evidently young. One of these Red-tails, a young 
bird, I thought, uttered a prolonged, wheezy me-e-ow-w-w- 
very like the meow of a kitten. I heard the same sound in 
the pines at Lee’s Cliff but saw no bird there. This cry is, 
I think, a modification of the call of the adult when anxious 
about its nest. 
The flight-song of the Swamp Sparrow is tr- wee , 
tr- wee-tee- tr-e-e-e-e-e-e-, the additional notes being at 
the beginning — a prelude, as it were. I heard the 
ordinary song last night at about ten o'clock. 
The white water lilies have not passed their 
prime. I never saw a finer display than they made this 
morning around the shores of the bay and along the river 
above. Some of the indentations or little coves were white 
with them. The pickerel weed is also about at its best hdw. 
The singing of some species of birds ends very 
abruptly. One day you hear the usual number, the next not 
one and after several more days have passed it suddenly 
dawns on you that the bird has ceased singing for the season. 
Th§ Yellow Warbler is a good example of this class. I heard 
three males on the 14th but not one has sung within my 
hearing since. I think that an abrupt cessation of singing 
