watch it. I had hardly reached the river when 
I saw one’s head in a hush with a number of 
white-throated and song 1 sparrows. It flew with 
the others towards the old pasture, i followed 
carefully identifying every bird i saw' which 
Was rendered difficult by the sun. Finally it 
(or another one) flew into a bush and sat there 
looking around. V.hen it saw me it changed its 
position until it was hidden by the leaves. After 
remaining quiet for a minute or two it flew 
into a clump of prickly ash and hopped rapidly 
through it. It hopped at a song sparrow sitting 
below it and the latter flew away. The bird was 
8 ilent. Not seeing it for some time I walked on 
carefully but it flew to a brushpile on a pool 
of water where the other birds were bathing. 
^hen i came it seemed to frightened end after 
skulking awhile in insufficient cover it flew 
in.to an elm in the middle of a field and I lost 
track of it. During this time it was silent. It 
seemed to prefer the thickest cover and as near 
as I could tell fed as the other sparrows do. Its 
bead marked from all the other sparrows present. 
V<hen I first reached the meadows I 
frightened up a flock of meadowlai’ks. They lit 
in the trees and soon began to sing. The young 
^re rather poor songsters but one, an adult mala 
Probably sang at times as well as in the spring. 
They sang for two periodsof about 5 minutes 
e ach almost incessantly. The interval was of 
obout 10 minutes. Each time they seemed to 
a ffect the other birds so that it almost seemed 
iike spring. 
The white-throats are tamer than they 
were when they first came. Frequently they fed 
0n] y a few feet off. They scratehed the leaves 
nise ty hopping forward and then juming back 
raking their claws. They crouched down while 
feeding. 
Song sparrows also were very tame. Their 
cto s niade up most of the undertone to the 
ueral volume of song, i heard one well executed 
