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sound. Then perhaps from some dusky thicket a bird's song! An emotional outburst rising full-toned and clear, and passing all too quickly to a closing cadence, which seems to linger in the silent air. It is the songsr of the Fox Sparrow with that fuller power and richness of tone which come into it, or seem to, at the sunset hour. It breaks forth as if inspired from pure joy in the awakened season, though with some vague undertone, scarcely of sadness, rather of seine lower tone of joy. EUGENE P. BICKNELL.

587. Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linn). TUWIIEE; CHEWINK; Joann. All. 6 .—Upper parts black, sometimes margined with rut'ous; throat and breast black, belly white, sides rufous; outer web of primaries mostly white; tail black, the three outer feathers tipped with white; outer web of the outer feather entirely white; iris raj. Ad. Q .—Upper parts. wings, throat, and breast bright grayish brown; tail fuseous, the three outer feathels tipped with white; sides rut'ens, middle of the belly white. Young in first plum- age have the back and under parts streaked with black. L., 8'35; \V., 3-34; ’12, 3-05; 15., .33

Hunger—Eastern North America; breeds from the lower Mississippi Val- ley and Georgia northward to Maine, Ontario, and Manitoba; winters from Virginia to Florida.

Washington, common S. It, very common T. V., Apl. 15 to May 15; Sept. to Oct. 15, v. few winter. Sing Sing, common S. It, Apl. 21 to Oct. 31. Cmnbridge, common S. 1%., Apl. :25 to Oct. 15.

Jest, externally of dead leaves and strips of‘ bark, lined with fine grasses, on or near the ground. 121/1518, four to five, white, finely and evenly speckled with shades of ruf‘ous, sometimes blotched at the larger end, '96 x ‘71.

There is a vigorousness about the Towhee’s notes and actions which suggests both a bustling, energetic disposition and a good constitu- tion. 110 entirely dominates the thicket or bushy undergrowth in which he makes his home. The dead leaves fly before his attack; his white-tipped tail-feathers flash in the gloom of his haunts. He greets all passers with a brisk. inquiringr clLeu'in/c. law/ice. and if you pause to reply, with aflufl-flufl of his short, rounded wings he flies to a near- by limb to better inspect you.

It is only when singing that the Towhce is fully at rest. Then a change comes over him; he is in love, and. mounting a low branch, he gives voice to his passion in song. I have long tried to express the Towhee’s song in words, but never succeeded as well as Ernest Thompson when he. wrote it chuck-burr, pill-(L-will-a-will-a.

5873,. P. e. alleni ("annex \VinTE—m’m) Townmz; Joann—«Similar to the preceding. but with less white on the wings and tail; only two outer tail— f‘eathcrs tipped with white: iris yellowish or white. L., 8'00; W., 3‘20; T., 360; 13., '52.

[fang/aiFlvIrida: northward along the coast to southern South Carolina.