Orioles 
resume 
singing; 
Sharp-shin 
Hawk 
catches a 
Robin 
have been in the habit of resorting to these trees daily 
for the past week or more. 
The male Oriole sang several times in loud, ringing 
tones. This is the first time that I have heard the full song 
for several weeks, although a bird(evidently adult) in the 
birch swamp on the Assabet last evening gave most of it 
sotto voce . This autumn (or rather late summer) song of 
the Baltimore is more prolonged and richer than the ordinary 
spring fluting and its effect is heightened by the general 
silence at this season. It begins with the normal flute-like 
song, is continued by a succession of rich notes and ends, 
usually, in a low chatter^} 
At 3 P. M. I started for Ball's Hill with C, We 
had just reached the foot of the slope between the Buttrick’s 
house and the river when there was a sudden shrill outcry 
of bird voices in the big willow by my boat-house and the 
next instant a Robin appeared, closely pursued by a Sharp- 
shinned Hawk . The Robin, a young bird still in the speckled 
plumage but with fully developed wings and tail, flew very 
slowly and when within ten or twelve feet of us (±or the 
chase led directly towards us) its wings seemed to fail it 
altogether and it fluttered feebly down to the ground, 
uttering a shrill, squeaking cry and evidently fairly over¬ 
come with terror. The Hawk, a large female and also a young 
bird as I could see quite plainly, scaled on set wings 
with ta.il wide spread and although it did not seem to move 
