at it. 'i'he first was a young male. The under- 
Parts were white; v/ith a reddish stfeak on the 
flanks; the head was greenish yellow streaked 
obscurily v/ith dusky; wings and tail black; two 
white patches on outer tail feathers and two 
white wingbars. The note it gave was an in¬ 
definite tsit different from that of the Nashville 
warbler. It kept in t be bushes for a ways but 
kept working higher all the time until it flew 
into the lower branches of an oak and 1 was 
unable to find it again. 
Heard a yellow-throated vireo give a hollow 
■trilling note entirely different from any other 
I had ever heard it give. 
When v/e were going over to Kirkland we saw 
three or four spotted sandpipers. They flew 
for rather long distances for them but this was 
accounted for by the distance apart of suitable 
feeding grounds. 
At Kirkland about fifteen bluebirds were 
sitting around in the trees. Jacques did not 
know what they were at first. 
There v/as a tame crow here named Pat that he 
used to own. It would eat out of any ones hand 
and would keep just out of reach if you tried to 
Catch it. Otherwise it would come very close. 
It could say "hello" very distinctly. It was in 
full plumage. 
This afternoon at home I went over to the 
Half Moon. In P. H ac kett's woods redstarts v/ere 
quite thick. They were very restless and hard to 
see. They flew from one part of the v/oods to the 
other continually. 
Olive-backed thrushes v/ere fairly numerous 
sud I saw a flock of about 50 purple finches in 
the farther side near the track. They wore feed¬ 
ing on the ground and on the trees and contained 
rod and yellow ones. The yellow ones v/ere 
females and young. 
When I had reached the Half Moon it began to 
rain. Birds were consequently rather quiet. 
