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1902 
May 15 
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CONCORD, 
As I was starting for a walk at 8 A. M., I saw a male 
Hummer about the blossoming[birdjcherry trees near the barn, 
A moment later she alighted on a low branch close to the shed 
and the male appeared, darting down close over her , rising 
ten or fifteen feet above her and swooping again without 
pause in the usual loop-like course. 
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His throat flowed in the sunlight 
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like a coal of fire. He made the usual incessant shrill 
chirrup while rising and falling. The female meanwhile sat 
motionless and appeared wholly indifferent. 
In the apple orchard near the barn I heard a Black- 
poll and saw a male Black and Yellow Warbler. The latter 
was singing sotto voce as he moved slowly from twig to twig 
among the clustering snowy and pink blossoms. In the Pulpit 
Rock woods there were but few birds and the only northbound 
migrant I found there was a Blank-throated Blue Warbler which 
was singing in the usual drawling, listless way. 
On my way back from these woods I heard a Tennessee 
Warbler singing. He was in the very top of one of the tall 
oaks that form the row of trees on the south side of the 
orchard but I did not see him until he started on a long 
flight. I heard him sing eight or ten times. His song, 
although of the usual shrill, incisive character or quality, 
was peculiar in form — tip-1ip-1ip-1ip- 1i- 1chip-1chip-1chip . 
Evidently he was a different bird from the one noted in nearly 
the same place on the morning of the 12th. As I stood 
