i bU7 
JciHO 0. 
" 15. 
1868. 
May 14. 
IG 
.uno o, 
" 27, 
1870. 
1 
Dendrooea discolor, 
Middlesex Gounty, Mass. 
Found a nos ’with fo«.r fresh eggs, Tho fomale 
romainod on the nost till the last moment and then 
fluttered off. The nost was built on a low barberry 
bush. The male v/-as singing about a hundred yards 
off. 
Found a nost v/ith throe eggs. Young quite largo. 
Watched a male for some time . He v/ould light 
about the middle of a cedar tree and slov/ly ascend to 
the top, hopping from tv/ig to tv/ig and occasionally stop> 
ping to utter his song: chop , cJYo-cjie-c;\e-c]\e-ehe-j^^^ 
beginning slov/'ly a.nd quickly increasing in: rapidity and 
shrillness; v/’hen the bird is near the sound produces a- 
peculiar quivering on the ear of the listener (Belmont). 
Sav/ about a dozen males in an old pa.sturo overgrovm 
wi’oh cedar trios and barberry bushes. They spend most 
of their tirr.e in ohe cedars but of con descend to tlie 
bashes, and occasionally yo tho ground itself. Some- 
y-ures they would ciiase each o'-her through .'.-.he cops of 
tho tre.es, clu.elcing m.;anv;hila very like the Field 
The 
.j i.ivjci uo b, all males .(lelnorh). 
Found a nest Just finislied. 
Sc?voral males sinking (Belmont). 
Spar-.-QW 
^ay 17.;: 
l’ 
Sept. 22. 
1871. i| 
"ay 17.il 
i! 
1870. || 
Juno 12. ;! 
1874. 
June 12 
Found them unusually .abundant. 
look a single specimen among barberry bushes. 
A general arrival of males (Belmont,'. 
Two nests; one 'vith nev/ly li&tched young and a 
rotton egg, the other with five eggs vtoII advanced; both 
placed in barberry bushes in high rocky pastures thickly 
gi oV7n up to that slirub. Both .birds '/lion th.eir nests 
v7ei e rorioved rebuilt them iij the im! 7 'odiate vicinity. 
The nicile rarely sang more than two hundred yards from 
their sitting mates. 
l\/o nes L,s, one v/iifh four yho o.hor with five eggs 
all well advanced. The fomalos of bo uh nos Ls sat close¬ 
ly and tho males appeared at the firs!, alarm, both birds 
chirping yfQi'j liko Yollov; .'arblers and tilting their 
tails approbot,;'jivolv 
H rn 
Nox tJnr of these n -‘‘sts were 
usual; one \ms lined largolj^ with feathers} 
both wore in barberry bush.-*s on Arlington eighyS. 
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