Occasionally when it reached more open portions 
it would fly hack to the cliff above the river hut 
i found it again easily each time. Once when it 
w&s on a patch of pine needles a bluejay gave an 
fi-l&rm note and it staid still watching above it for 
two or three minutes. This seemed to be where it 
looked for danager, above. The last I saw of it it 
Was peering around a tree trunk at me calling in its 
hin nasal tone yank yank yank yank . It seemed to 
to be about half as big as a white-breasted. 
It's ick was exactly like that of its cousin. 
March 18, 1903 - Wednesday . 
This morning when I got up 1 heard a familiar 
—?- ee t and following it up found ny first fox 
sparrow of the year. It must have stopped over 
bring the night. A few English sparrows were 
gathered around it curiously and at last it flew 
av/ay. 
Vent down in the old pasture. Birds were thick 
usual. I saw a pair of song sparrows mating, 
ihe female seemed very indignant at the attentions 
Paid to her and chased the male v.ith continual 
-4®et_s. They flew low along the ground and 
hrough the brushpiles with a straight flitting 
htirely different than usually seen. At every 
Pause he would sing and then she would take to chas- 
ln g him again. 
In Seeley's marsh were half a dozen male red- 
ugs i n full song. I heard a hurried sparrowlike 
■y? ^ tslt-it tsit-it tsit-it coming from the marsh. 
n sounded exactly like a young bird. There was 
Vih in sight but a red-wing in a box-elder tree. 
"° Sa ng and between times examined his toes in an 
mbarrassed manner. Soon I noticed that a tsit 
Receded his song nearly always and that I never 
a ar<i the note while he sang. Soon 1 caught in the 
I k?.>. V;as sa ^isfied. He gave three songs h’war 
-— ~ e an ( I Co (wh ) er lee and ha were k wa. 
w, After breakfast 1 went over to the"hemlocks to 
151 on tlie cabin. 
