co;:coRD 
1902 
November 4 *be country is no?/ almost completely drained, of its 
|| summer resident birds and early and mid-autunm migrants. The 
last Bluebirds, Robins and Rusty Blackbirds departed nearly 
a week ago and the Titlarks have nearly all gone. I sa.w a 
stray Chippy on the 2nd and heard a Yellow-rump to-day. 
Chickadees, Kinglets, Creepers, Cro'ws, Jajas, Goldfinches, 
and Partridges with an'occasional Downy or Hairy Woodpecker 
or Flicker are now about the only birds I am likely to find 
in these ?/oods during a ,morning's tramp. I saw the first 
Tree Sparrow to-day. The Juncos have nearly all gone. 
No one has seen any Quail on the Farm of late but 
at daybreak this morning one v/histled loudly a nunber of times 
very near the house. Every morning the Crows congregate to 
the number of fifty or more in a cornfield on the Holden farm 
where the stooks are still stsending and when the air is 
still they make a prodigious clamor. Our corn has been har¬ 
vested but the Jays still come to the field to search for 
stray kernels which the Pigeons aiid Squirrels have overlooked. 
The Gray Squirrels follov/ed the corn into our open shed 
and boldly seized and made off v/ith the ears v/hile the men 
were at v/ork "husking". The Red Squirrels have not 
molested the corn at all. 
^ Two Tree Crickets ( Acanthus nivaeus ) v/ere chirping 
steadily,if somewhat slowly,near the house last evening. 
