G01TCORD, 
1892 
August 21 
Mixed, flock 
[To Row Meadow at 10 A. M, via Derby's and Dutton’s 
lanes, returning down the Estabrook Road about noon. 
The on^-y birds heard singing were a Song Sparrow, 
a Red-eye, a Black and White Creeper, a Wood Pewee, and a 
Quail. The first was near the house; the second and third 
were in Derby's woods and both sang nearly as steadily and 
well as in June. The Pewee also gave the expressive spring 
song, not the listless pee- e which I hear most of the time 
now. 
even 
Birds appear to (be) very scarce/for this, the season 
of greatest quiet and retirement. Besides the species just 
named I saw or heard: Field Sparrows (2), Towhees(o), Robins(8), 
Cedar B:irds (2), Thrasher(l), Crows(several), Jays(2), 
Swifts (5,.or 6, flying very high), Red-tailed Hawk(l), Phoebe(l), 
31uebirds(2), Kingbirds(2), Downy Woodpecker(l), Golden- 
winged Warbler (l) , Chickadees(6), Least Flycatcher(l), 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher(l) and Black-throated Green Warbler(2). 
In all, 22 species. 
The five species last named, with a Robin, a 
Creeper and a Wood Pewee were all together in mixed pines and 
oaks near Clark’s big ivoods. After the manner of all such 
gatherings of small birds, they were moving rather steadily 
and rapidly from tree to tree, so that I had to walk at a 
(Black and White Creeper) 
fair pace to keep up with them. The Mniotilta occasionally 
gave the midsummer song and one of the Black-throa.ted Greens 
warbled frequently in low tones a strain which had little of 
the peculiar quality of the 
spring song which was indeed 
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