Identification was a matter of difficulty as 
they flew as soon as seen and hid in the 
hrashpiles. I sat down and they came up close. 
The white-throats gave low songs much like the 
fall song of the song sparrows and called tsink 
8harply. 
One young song sparrow came out on a stick 
and sang for two or three minutes. 
Heard several chewinks. 
Seeley’s marsh was teeming with swamp 
sparrows. I must have overlooked them in pre¬ 
vious years. Their note tsink was like that of 
the white-throat hut not so loud. They flew 
from under my feet and sat on a reed scolding 
at me or dropped hack into cover. x hey were 
smaller than the song sparrows. 
A few soras flew as I followed the edge 
°f the marsh. One I cut off from the weeds and 
It flew towards the river. I followed it and 
It flew across. I could imagine it skulking 
around through the herry hushes until near night 
when it would he courageous enough to return. 
Saw where either a cat or a mink had eaten a 
5 0r a . 
OCTOBER 
Octobe r 3, 1 9 03 - Saturday. 
This morning Art Rudy and I went doivn in 
fields. 
By Ran Fullmer's I saw a strange bird in 
company with a number of sparrows in a thicket 
and fired hut missed. It was as large as a fox 
sparrow and had a queerly marked head. I 
f °1lowed along carefully and saw it again and 
with it another one. I shot one and identified 
It as Zonotr ichla querula , Harris sparrow. They 
were very secretive hut one flushed lit on a 
hidden branch and sat there looking around. 
•hen I shot the other one disappeared. 
m . October 4, 1903 - Sunday, 
deto Jf^Is hiorning i went ctovm In the fields 
ned to find another Harris sparrow and 
