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September 21. 1898 -Thursday. 
This—onSne-SKirTl »s out buck'of the barn 
an Indigo bunting flew »P in tne air a d “ 
before commenced to sing with V TbiSlter- 
before and as it turned downward. Thisafte 
noon as I looked out of the window I saw exactly 
the same thing. I think that this is the same 
"bird that I heard before. 
this morning. It sang once. It was down in 
the pasture. Heard several white-throated 
sparrows down by the ditch this afternoon, 
giving the downy woodpecker-like tser. 
September 23, 18 99 - Saturday . 
The v/Ki'te-crowned sparrows are here. I saw 
some of the little beauties in Mr. PeUeyfe 
currant bushes sunning themselves, and ea«rg 
their breakfast. Their common note sounded 
like tseeh, sometimes one would chr-r ^r a 
anothSTlf it came near where it was /® e ^* 
Went hunting this afternoon and saw a number 
of winter wrens among the logs and brush around 
the half-moon. Their tails are reddish brown, 
underparts dark olive-yellow; crown olive; 
white*line above the eye; black lijo through 
eye; eye black; wings reddish; 1st & 2nd 
primaries finely veined with white and biac , 
back olive. They were very inquisitive and 
would cone up to within 4 feet of me fobbing 
up and down as if going to fly. ±he COCTn ° a the 
note was a metallic kimp kiro^ once one gave the 
kissing note of a thTS^er rapidly several 
times. After a few minutes they went off. T j 
ran along the logs and even went a few feet up 
straight trees. . 
Saw a brown creeper in some other woods. 
It used its tail to brace with. The song 
