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Annual report ..[bulletins and circulars] . ^ grown tangle, andupon cautiously coming up, you may discover the authors—-notbig grouse as you may have supposed, but a flock of fine vigorousfox-sparrows, on their way to their northern breeding grounds.They are bright bay fellows, with boldly blotched brown and whitebreasts, diligenth- scattering the leaves for their food of .seeds, spiders, ants and other insects. If you have been fortunateenough not to have been seen you may hear their song, which is one of the finest of our sparrow songs, readily recog-nizable as such, though not resembling any of its fellows—a clearvigorous carol, often ending abruptly with a rather unmusicalclip. If however, they have seen you, you will be treatedto a sharp tseep ! and a rear view of a flock of rapidly retreat-ing birds, for they are not sociable (with us, at least) and gener-. log ally take a hint to move on before you know of their presence. They do not stay long with us on their migration, and seeing them one day is no indication that you can find them the next. ^ * * Although the white-throated sparrows spend the winter in oursouthern counties, they do not start their northward journey asearly as we might expect, and it is not until the first part ofApril that we may be sure of finding them. I have one list, indeed, that shows their first appearance on May first! They are to be found in similar places to those which the fox-sparrows choose, and are very similar to them in habits, but theboldly striped head and gray breast are very distinctive marks.Almost all of our native sparrows have a callnote, the tseep note, which is hard todistinguish in the different species withoutmuch patient listening—and I doubt if anyperson is infallible in this distinction. Thewhite-throat has this note, as well as thesong-sparrow, tree-sparrow, (a winter bird)fox-sparrow,