215 
1870. 
Ampelis codrorum. 
Middlesex County, Mass, 
Mar. 21.' 
“ 22 .:: 
i, 
I 
" 24. 
^pr. 7. 
« 23. ‘ 
1871. i, 
i: 
Jan- 18, :: 
" 2 (<. 
“ 25. 
“ 2'7. 
" 3(>. 
2 o b . 6. 
11 , 
Apr. 2. 
May 7. 
“ 25. 
Mov. 10. 
1872. 
Saw upv/ards oT a b.undrod d’''.rin,^ tiie day, all in 
flocks and scattorod about ovoryv/hero. 
Many lar^-e flocks They come in numbers to our 
rod cedar ami fed gro dily upon uhe berries. 
Se\''oral very la,r;;^o flocks. 
Still ’.Yith us in lar„e flocks. 
Still abundant ar,d in lar,;,e flocks. 
’^lock of t’u.roo at 'elnont, foedinn on cedar berries; 
all very high piurna'-od birds and in u’ood condition; a 
rema rkahljr early arrival. 
Clock o-*:’ a dozen or nioro (Wa nrtovm ). 
Flock of t\7olve. 
Two floc.ks. 
Aery abundar t, for the nost pert in 'I'locks o!' 
dozen or fifteen. Fond of basking in t'le sun. sitting 
in tno tops of the tallest deciduous trees. -eed euti e- 
ly on cedar berries, quite ignorin'! t’’e osnar-wus bods 
vdiich, a inon.tli Isiter, '/’ill be t':,eir cor.stant resort. 
The v/bolo crop ar.d r^eck of one wh,icb. r killed v/as so 
filled v/xt.u iiemos that the nod: vms stretched half ,as 
long as , -0 body. 
Have ■.o'-'un fe.Hling o?' t'''e -asparaa'us berries but 
still seem to prefer the cedars. Out of tv/o.ity-one 
syocirnor s two had the tail v/ax-tippod, eighteen t-e 'ring, 
v/hile tnree la-cked these aupoadagos on boti'.. 
Ha ?-o r,o\Y almost deserted t’;e cedars "ort the as ear a- 
gus beds. Several to-day v/biio flying uttered repea- 
tenly a loud, mellov/- twitter almost precisely like that 
iiiihhJLclo. iiJwoJwrj this I haw heard before but on 
ojily one occasion—yHien pursi.;iu,g a f'roker--vn.ngGd bird. 
A small flock. 
A cozen or more f'oedinu or-: hawthorn berries. 
Reappeared in lar.^e flocks. 
_ Three. Sen:- by De^-ie, 
One among cedars ir, Belmont. 
Jan. 12 
