but soon other came chasing each other over 
the fields from the direction in which it had 
disappeared. 
A single crow in Alder swamp,(Voeck*s 
pasture, Dahlke's pasture, etc.) sat in the 
bop of an elm. I went through the swamp towards 
him. Suddenly he gave a vociferous caw caw and 
I thought it was calling to some others. A few 
steps farther on I heard a sudden rush of wings 
ahd another crow flew up from the bushes in 
front of me where it had been feeding around a 
pool of water. The first one was evidently a 
sentinel and gave a signal to the other. 
Both flew over and lit in a tree towards Rob 
Dickie’s and staid there for some time. 
I got mixed up while going around some 
Water and found myself going north instead of 
®ast. Started toward the track along the fence 
®ud as I neared 1 saw a small bird sitting in a 
bush ahead of me. The glass showed that it was 
a male redpoll the first I have seen this 
winter. It had a dark red crown and on the 
breast the red showed as a sort of cross when it 
moved in certain positions. Altogether it was 
&n extremely beautiful bird. It was very taste¬ 
fully colored and had a quiet beauty about it 
ontirely different from that of some birds as the 
scarlet tanager. It seemed ill at ease and con¬ 
tinually twitched its tail. It was silent al¬ 
though I tried to startle into giving a note. 
Soon it flew down to a dead branch on the ground 
aftd from thence to the earth itself where it 
hopped around and fed. If I made a slight move¬ 
ment it would hop on to the branch and watch me 
re stlessly for a few minutes. Its back showed 
Ve ry light colored but its breast v/as too heavily 
streaked for the mealy redpoll for which I at first 
took it. 
Went on across the bridge and towards the 
hemlocks. From the hidden trail I watched and 
listened to song and tree sparrow’s across the river 
The song of the latter seemed to fit in well with 
