Golden-wing 
Ssrbler 
Red-tailed 
Hawk 
Gray 
Squirrel 
Bow Meadow 
scarce recognizable. I think the singer was a young bird. 
The Golden-wing was a male with full black throat and 
apparently fully perfected autumnal plumage. He uttered a 
low rasping chirp not unlike that of an Indigo Bird and 
seemed to avoid the pines, working chiefly at the extremity 
of oak branches where he hung back downward like a 
Chickadee. I saw him find and eat several good-sized hair¬ 
less Caterpillars, one of which he extracted from a rolled- 
up leaf wrapped about with Caterpillar silk. 
The Red-tailed Hawk was flying over the swamp 
east of Clark's woods, uttering a gasping or choking scream 
prolonged and husky as if the bird's throat were dry ( cree- 
e-e-e-e-£-eJl. This is one of the most characteristic cries 
of this species. 
In Dutton's corn a large Gray Squirrel, tinged 
strongly over the entire upper parts with rusty fulvous 
clung head downwards against the stump of our oak for a 
minute watching me, and then, taking to the wall, ran along 
its top very swiftly until he reached the woodsT] 
Bow Meadow . I spent an hour or more sitting on a 
ledge covered with rock ferns looking out over this pretty 
little opening. Its appearance is singularly wild and 
northern , reminding me at all seasons of some of the bays 
in Maine or New Brunswick a.lthough there is nothing really 
