starts were quite common, several brilliant males 
being seen. I had thought that they adopted the 
dress of the female in winter. Frequently they 
fell and fluttered quite a distance through the 
limbs after insects. 
Saw a 8ingle immature scarlet tanager. It 
flew out of a tree after an insect and then went 
in a clump of trees. I followed by could not 
find it although I heard a low pe re that con¬ 
vinced me of its identity. Finally it followed 
a flock of other species around to where I was 
and I got a good look at it. She belly seemed 
white. As I watched it a small bug flew by its 
bead and it turned to catch with open bill but 
it was gone. A warbler would have captured it 
but the tanager was slow and methodical in its 
movements and did not seem to be accustomed to 
rapid moves. 
I heard a thin seety seety seety seety and 
saw six ruby-crowned kinglets. ‘i'hey seemed like 
old friends. One male, a handsome fellow expand¬ 
ed his fiery crest to its fullest extent when 
another came too close. They were soon gone and 1 
did not see them again. 
The redstarts gave a thin loud tseet sharper 
than that of the Nashvilles. 
The birds of the flocks were five or six 
red-breasted nuthatches. I have always had a 
peculiar affection for these tiny birds ever since 
1 first knew them and watch them with intei'est 
whenever I see them. They were calling ank arik 
ank to each other all the time and 1 heard five 
at once. That call is enough to start the 
migration fever in anything. One sat on a 
telephone wire or stick catching insects on the 
wing. When he called he lifted his wings in 
exaggerated bluebird fashion. Sometimes this was 
done while silent. They ran restlessly up and 
down the limbs pecking first on one side of a bit 
of bark and then on the other until it came loose 
when they got sometimes a white grub and sometimes 
I could see nothing. 
A white-braasted nuthatch lit in a broken 
