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polished brown object that looked like a chrysalis of some 
kind. The paired birds kept close together as did the 
pairs at times, while at others they rambled far apart, 
I do not remember to have ever before seen Chickadees 
feed so long’ and persistent;j.y on the ground, 
^he immense numbers of Juncos seen to-day gave me 
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an exceptional opportunity to study and compare the songs 
in the 
of many different individuals, I must have heard more 
songs of 
than one hundred different birds. Many (the majority, I 
Juneos 
think) sang more or less like Pine Warblers for which, 
The 
indeed, I mistook several of them for an instant and one 
song trill 
bird \mtil I got very near and heard him several times. 
Others reminded me most of Chippies but these, without 
exception, put more of life and melody into their notes 
than the Chippy ever does into his dry, listless song. 
Others again (there were but three or four in this class) 
sang very like Myrtle Warblers, The song of one bird was 
so closely like that of the Swamp Sparrow that I was com¬ 
pletely deceived until I actually saw the bird in the act 
of producing it. 
Medley- 
Thus far I have been referring exclusively to the 
singing 
song trill ishich the Junco uses on its breeding grounds. 
c^^the 
Junco 
The medley singing, peculiar, I believe, to early spring, 
was frequently heard to-day, I noted the following ren¬ 
dering of it after listening cajrefully to a bird for some 
time, Quip-quip-quip-quer-e-e-e-quil-1-1-1-1-1 (i.e, the 
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