listening to him it occurred to me that one of the most 
marked characteristics of the Tennessee Warbler* s song is 
that it is delivered at shorter intervals than that of 
almost any other of our Warblers. At least, this is usually 
the case where the bird is singing steadily.j 
Our Bluebird was in full, rapturous song all day 
long and early in the forenoon I saw him escorting his mate 
to the bird box over the shed, into which she carried a 
large mouthful of fine dry grass. I supposed at the time 
that her first nest must have been broken up, but in the after¬ 
noon, while driving to Concord, I passed directly under a young 
Bluebird that was perched on a telegraph wire. It started 
a moment later and flew off easily enough, although rather 
feebly. This is a very e arly date for young Bluebirds to 
leave the nest. During a walk of about a mile up the road 
this evening I saw six or eight Bluebirds but all were adults 
and silent. 
[Early this afternoon I heard a House Wren singing in 
the Holden orchard near the little brick school-house at 
the entrance to the road that leads to Bensen's. It is the 
first I have ever found anywhere in this part of Concord. 
I wish it would settle in our orchard. 
Three Partridges were drumming late this afternoon 
one 
within hearing of the house,evea? near the head of the Run, 
another at its foot, the third at the western end of Birch 
Field. All three of these stations were frequented by 
drummers last year. 
