little, and. last "but not least came the saucy 
house sparrow. 
June 30,Friday NORTH EREEDOM. 
June 30, 1899 - Friday . 
This afternoon 1 went down in the fields. 
Saw a Phoebe sitting on a wire fence near the 
river. Took the following description of it. 
back and tail, light olive brown; head darker; 
underparts white washed with yellow; it jerked 
its tail. It flew with a bobby chicadee like 
flight and made in the air and on the ground after 
insects. Sometimes it hovered for an instant 
like a king bird. 
In Maine's woods I found a brown thrasher’s 
nest in a thick clump of prickly ash. The old 
one uttered a low cwa as she slipped off. Farther 
°ff a kissing note and lastly a whistled wheura. 
The nest was made of sticksand leaves and lined 
with fine grass. It was quite bulky. It con¬ 
tained 4 eggs, bluish white thickly spotted with 
fine cinnamon brown and yellowish on one end. 
•aat down it watch it. A song sparrow came and 
sang and then dove into the bushes beside me and 
started to hunt for food but saw me and flew 
uway and another did the same. The old Thrasher 
•lid not come back. The musquitoes nearly ate me 
^■P* The male came and surveyed me closely. Took 
this description of him. Underneath white, side 
und neck streaked and spotted with black; black 
line dividing white of throat from cinnamon 
snown of head, upperparts cinnamon brown, and 
cheeks grayish, "hen the musquitoes drove me out 
6 greeted me with a few words of song. 
Found a robin nest in a small apple tree on 
the farther side of the slough. It was in plain 
sight and was not proctected from the sun. *Sat 
0vm to watch it. Catbirds, cowbirds and though 
