1900 
APRIL 
April 1, 1900 - Sunday * 
V/ent down to the island this afternoon. A 
Chicadee was singing away as if trying to outdo 
the white-breasted nuthatches. 
Next I saw some strange birds; I looked at 
them for some time but finally one turned towards 
me. 
They were Tree Sparrows. They were singing. 
The song sounded like twetl twetl sweet toot l 
tootl s weet swoo see see chini chim u see tool 
j'o'o'l T It was a very sweet song. 
The two notes in it _su and tool were indrawn. 
Saw a robin wooing. He would sing a little 
in a low tone and then the female would run at him 
and fight him. I noticed though that he did 
his share of the fighting after she began. 
Finally she answered him and then they began to 
feed. 
The Tree Sparrow sang quite a while but not 
very loudly. They had a black spot on the 
breast. His plumage hung loosely and his tail 
was straight down. 
Another answered it and they kept it up for 
some time. One flew over nearer the other. 
Some parts of the song sounded like a robin. 
I seated myself on a log to watch them. One of 
the singers went away. The other flew to another 
branch and sang on the way. 
It sang for about two minutes once. The 
common note was like tsip . There were about 2^of 
them. Three were feeding auite near me. 
A small flock of redpolls flew over. The 
singer stopped and looked up to see what they were. 
They hopped. In singing they v/ent in trees about 
6 or 10 feet up. Then nearly a dozen crows flew 
over. 
The tree sparrows did not pay much attention 
to the trains. 
