the open field in front of the house, with low, undulating 
flight, to alight in the top of the big elm by the road¬ 
side where he uttered loudly and incessantly the usual 
House Sparrow-like call, sometimes closely follovfed by a 
rolling or chuckling whistled one. Soon after this he 
flew across the road to a bushy wild apple tree growing 
by a wall, near the well-house, perching on one of its 
outer low-drooping branches no more than eight feet above 
the ground, where Gilbert and I approached him closely 
certainly to v;ithln 20 yards) and viewed him to excellent 
advantage, for several minutes, in clear, well-diffused 
light, under an overcast sky. 
Thus seen, he seemed to possess an unusual amount 
of yellow, especially on the back, and this of an excep¬ 
tionally pale cast. There was also more conspicuous 
white in his plumage than birds of his kind and sex com¬ 
monly show. His next flight, to and along the public 
roadway, terminated at the young v/hite oak that shades our 
mail box, in which he sat for a few moments before rising 
high in air and crossing Lawrence’s fields to extensive 
woodland beyond, where I had my final view of him perched 
on the tojimost stray of a tall chestnut not less than four 
hundred yards away and looking scarce bigger than a pin 
head; yet even from that distance his harsh calls came 
faintly to ray ears. Altogether we had him under observation 
