suspicious of me. They gave a note tsee tsee 
once. It sounded like a cedar waxwing. Their 
wings showed white while flying. They flew off 
across the river but soon returned. I hunted 
for their nest but did not find it. Vihile 
watching them I saw a song sparrow courting. It 
hovered above the female with its tail spread 
and back towards, singing all the time. She 
flew at him and pulled bis feathers, and made 
him scream. iYhen he lit his tail was still spread. 
Saw three flickers. They flew towards each 
other giving the whick ah note on the wing. 
The grosbeaks began to give the call note ter - 
r-r, and presently 3 more joined them. Went on 
and saw a quail in a brushpile. It gave a low 
alarm note like whoit . Then it flew off with 
booming’ wings. Found 2 more of which one was a 
female. All were in brushpiles. In Fiske’s 
pasture I saw a red-winged blackbird chasing a 
sparrow hawk, gave a note like led in a low tone. 
The blackbird was a male. 
Heard a brown thrasher sing. Then I went home. 
April 23, 1900 - Monday. 
Went down in the fields this morning with Mat 
Encjeln. Saw a number of r® adowlarks and flickers. 
Three brown thrasher were in a tree. They did 
not sing together. 
It mocked a number of birds, as the white¬ 
breasted nuthatch, Maryland yellowthroat, and the 
red-winged blackbird. 
They were rather wild and scattered as I 
approached. One lit above me and when it saw me 
flew off with an alarm note like ewah ewah . 
Saw the evening grosbeaks again. There were 2 
males and 3 females. They were not so wild today. 
They would fly up and sit still and look. They 
called quite a little. 
Some white-throated sparrows were singing. The 
song was like peabody peabody peabody . I did not 
see them. The s ong is a thin high whistle. They 
answered when I imitated it. 
