very like a Black-poll’s but louder and more vigorous in 
quality. I left the bird in his beautiful setting of apple 
blossoms. 
Golden-wing 
Warblers 
Lincoln’s 
Finch 
and Whit e- 
crowned 
S parrow 
Two Wood Thrushes were in full continuous song at 
the farm, one in the orchard in front of the barn, the 
other in the Run. I heard three Golden-winged W a rblers, 
two at the farm, one in an elm behind Bensen’s housed], 
During the past four days we have had constantly 
in front of the cabin two Lincoln's Finches and a White- 
crowned Sparrow while one of the Lincoln* s was here seven- 
days, arriving on the 11th. All three of these birds de¬ 
parted last night, the Lincoln's which I saw this morning 
being half way between the cabin and the bars and evidently 
a. new comer. The three birds which have been staying with 
us so long have been fed bountifully with millet seed and 
by this potent attraction have been kept constantly within 
the confines of the narrow belt of bushes which extend 
from the canoe pit to the old landing — a distance of about 
thirty yards. The Lincoln* s Finch which arrived on the 11th 
was from the first so exceptionally tame and confiding as 
to lead me to believe that he was the same individual ’/midi 
spent six days in the same place last year. This spring 
he has been as trustful and phlegmatic as an average Song 
Sparrovj, He has sung freely but I have heard him give 
only the Junco songs {both forms), the House Wren song, and 
that of the Purple Finch and Long-billed Marsh Wren. His 
rendering of all these struck Thayer, who has listened to 
