CONCORD, 
k Red-wings, Song Sparrows, Robins and a Pine Warbler 
singing near the cabin at sunrise. Just after breakfast a 
Solitary Vireo in full son^ near the crest of Ball's Hill 
and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet chattering and singing among the 
dense pines just behind this hill. I was struck by the close 
resemblance between the chatter and that which the Solitary 
Vireo utters when its nest is approached. Later in the 
day we heard another Kinglet in full song in Bedford Swamp, 
At 8.30 A. M. we started down river in the old 
Buttrick boat, paddling, poling and rawing by turns, hugging 
the shores of the flooded meadow closely for the water is 
now as high as it was the middle of last March. We saw but 
few birds until we reached Lawrence's big woods where on 
landing we found a mixed flock of Yellow-rumps and Yellow 
Palm Warblers flitting about among the oaks and pines, 
darting out after flying insects and singing freely, the 
dry, chattering notes of the Palm ‘Warblers blending with the 
much sweeter ones of the Yellow-rumps. [_The song of the latter 
species possesses the same dreamy quality as that of D endroic a 
dominiea which, indeed, it strikingly resembles in other 
respects although it is shorter and less strong and pene¬ 
trating. Despite the fact that the Yellow—rump does not 
breed here, it is the earliest bird to reach us whose coloring 
suggests summer, as the Black and White Creeper is the first 
whose song carries the same suggestion. Of the Creepers, by 
uhe way, we saw or heard four or five during the forenoon,; 
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