. Bird-lore . CATBIRD ON NlJsFPhotographed from nature by A J. Pennock, at Lansdowne, Pa , July,. A Study of a Lincolns Sparrow BY WILLIAM BREWSTER ,T Concord, Massachusetts, in the spring of iSgg, Iliad a rare opportunity of studying the habits andnotes of a Lincolns Sparrow, The bird appeared May15th in a thicket of bushes within a few yards of thelog cabin where I was living, and remained there untilthe 22nd, spending apparently the whole of this periodwithin a space a few yards square. On the edge of the thicket,in a bed of ferns about fifteen feet from the cabin door, I scattereddaily a q
. Bird-lore . CATBIRD ON NlJsFPhotographed from nature by A J. Pennock, at Lansdowne, Pa , July,. A Study of a Lincolns Sparrow BY WILLIAM BREWSTER ,T Concord, Massachusetts, in the spring of iSgg, Iliad a rare opportunity of studying the habits andnotes of a Lincolns Sparrow, The bird appeared May15th in a thicket of bushes within a few yards of thelog cabin where I was living, and remained there untilthe 22nd, spending apparently the whole of this periodwithin a space a few yards square. On the edge of the thicket,in a bed of ferns about fifteen feet from the cabin door, I scattereddaily a quantity of millet seed. This convenient supply of a foodirresistible to most of the Sparrow tribe had, no doubt, much to dowith the prolonged visit of the Lincolns Finch, although the weather,during his entire stay, was too cool and threatening to be favorablefor migration. He was shy at first and at all times alert and suspicious, but heshowed a nice and, on the whole, wise discrimination in his judg-ment of different sights and sounds. He soon learned to disregardnoises made within the cabi
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