. Bird lore . of two notes and the second of a trill—butsometimes the first part consists of three notes, and at times the trill is omitted. This species feeds on worms, seeds, and insects and their larvai, and duringthe summer months they vary their diet by eating blackberries and wild I have seen a bird eating an acorn, it appears that nuts are also on their billof fare. Much of the food is found on the ground, and once I had an oppor-tunity to see a bird while scratching among the dead leaves for a meal, makeshort flights into the air for passing insects, in true Flycatcher styl
. Bird lore . of two notes and the second of a trill—butsometimes the first part consists of three notes, and at times the trill is omitted. This species feeds on worms, seeds, and insects and their larvai, and duringthe summer months they vary their diet by eating blackberries and wild I have seen a bird eating an acorn, it appears that nuts are also on their billof fare. Much of the food is found on the ground, and once I had an oppor-tunity to see a bird while scratching among the dead leaves for a meal, makeshort flights into the air for passing insects, in true Flycatcher style. Chewinks are not gregarious, and one seldom sees more than two or threetogether. Most of them depart for the South during September, but stragglersremain until the end of October, and occasionally one spends the winter in thispart of Massachusetts. On December 19, 1906, and again the next day, I sawa solitary individual—a male, apparently in perfect condition—on the borderof an old roadwav in li I >\ \i;s I Photograplu-il \>y J. iM. Stlireik, :il Kilnnuiliin, Remarks on the Habits of the Kingfisher on the NewHampshire Seacoast By HENRY R. CAREY WHEN the cold east wind from the sea still chills one to the marrow,and the clamorous cries of the Crows are yet borne to the ear withthe crispness of passing winter, a moderately large bird, rivalingthe Swallow in his flight and bearing the blue of the sky upon his back, sweepsup Sagamore creek, near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for the first time inmany months, ratthng as he goes. It is the Kingfisher; he has come as punctuallyas if driven by clockwork, in this, the first week of April, to spend his summerwith us. Like all fishermen, he is independent by nature. Only the power of love isable to dispel for a time the joy which he finds in his solitary hunting perch. Alonehe sits on his distant point of vantage, twisting his keen eye in every directionor turning slowly upon his tiny feet, bowing and cla
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