C Oil CORD. 
1902 
Fox 
Sparrows 
A Phoebe 
alights 
and sings 
on a 
shelf 
in the 
cabin 
Bluebirds 
abundant 
The three Fox Sparrows which Gilbert saw here on 
the 2nd and which I found on my arrival last evening v/ere 
about the cabin most of the forenoon, feeding on the millet 
seed which we put out for them. One of them sang sotto voce 
(almost in a whisper, so low were most of the notes) at 
sunrise and two were in full song for fifteen or twenty 
minutes at about eight o'clock. It was a great treat to 
hear their wild and superbly rich and perfectly modulated 
voices once more for 1 was beginning to fear that I should 
miss the privilege this year. I also heard the tsup call 
and the low, chiding chatter they make while feeding, 
besides of course the strong, lisping chirp. 
There was a Phoebe in full song near the cabin, 
another at Bensen's, a third across the river and a fourth 
at the Farm. As I was lying in bed this morning the Ball's 
Hill bird sang several times near the open window^ of the 
upper room and a moment later entered it and, perching on 
a pile of magazines on a shelf near my bed, uttered his 
sweetly-harsh phoe-be- e-e, phoe-bee several times. I have 
repeatedly, in former years, known either this bird or 
another to enter the lower cabin and on one occasion Gilbert 
saw him alight on an iron rod over the fire-place. 
f 
|The Song Sparrow^ migration seems to be over but 
Bluebirds are nearly if not quite as numerous as ever. I 
saw three paird (two near together) and an odd male and 
heard three other males singing this forenoon. 
