Wood 
Thrushes 
Wood sounds 
at night 
Moths 
twenty could be heard in this region in a single evening by a 
rapid walker who was familiar with the ground. 
Estabrook Road at Evening . 
After leaving Clark’s woods, I struck directly 
across country to the Estabrook Road in which I took my stand 
on the crest of a knoll with a maple swamp behind me and a 
tract of about fifty acres of rough, rocky land cleared two 
or three years ago and now densely covered with oak and walnut 
sprouts eight or ten feet in height stretching away towards 
the sunset. 
The air was cool and there was no wind. I could 
hear Wood Thrushes in every direction and now and then a 
Tanager or Cat-bird. All three species were singing at 7.45 
when the first Whippoorwill began and one of the Wood Thrushes 
continued just twelve minutes later, closing the concert of 
day birds at 7.57/^ 
As I walked slowly homeward after dark, I frequently 
heard Mice rustling or jumping in the dry leaves and occasion¬ 
ally a fluttering as of a. bird's wings in the foliage of the 
oaks which overarch the road. The latter sound proved to be 
made by large Moths probably of several species although 
all that I saw looked nearly alike. One alighted on the 
under side of a leaf almost within reach of my hand and opened 
broad 
and shut its wings/ slowly. It, as well as all the others, 
