sounds rather nice especially at this season. 
It has a somewhat wren like quality. 
AUGUS T. 
August 4, 1901 ~ Sunday . 
This morning before breakfast I went down in 
Maine's woods. In one of the big elms by the 
river I saw a Nas^ille Warbler a new bird to me. 
The underparts were bright yellow, head ashy, 
hack olive green, wings blackish. It was quite 
restless and fed on dexterously caught insects. 
It kept rather in the lower branches and was hard 
ho find against the light. 
After breakfast I went down belo# again. Saw 
a redstart flutter and climb up the steep side of 
an old elm that slanted like this / . It 
Picked out the insects from the bark and gave a 
twittering song. 
Saw a chipping sparnow feeding her young just 
° u t of the nest. 
In Seeley's marsh were about 50 bobolinks. 
They had shed their tails and were not very wild, 
flight seemed to be a matter of great difficulty 
a bd was accomplished with a noisy flapping of the 
^ngs. Perhaps this accounted for their tameness. 
Saw a few red-wings and song sparrows and a 
single dickcissel. Heard a rose-breasted grosbeak 
give a low squeeky hesitating song. 
Crossed the river in a boat and watched four 
hobwhites, two males and two females. They were 
feeding like chickens in a grassy meadow. I 
s neaked up and watched them from behind a bank. 
The male acted like a rooster. They did not know 
what I was and when I stood up staid still for 
a minute in complete astonishment. 
Saw a kingbird eating black cherries across 
the river and a red-head feed her young on them. 
