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quite tame but did not like to have me watch them on the ground if I was too close. I managed to watch two though only a short distance away. One only was in plain sight; The other kept well hid among the weeds. The were feeding lambquarter and other seeds which had fallen to the ground. When they got to close there was always a low fusillade of [[underlined]]chrrr[[/underlined]]ing notes until they had gone farther apart. They seemed heedless of me as long as I stood still. They fed in a hurried manner picking a morsel here and

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another there without taking all in sight as they do in winter. On farther one lit on a rail fence about 20 feet away and then went to the ground where it was covered with grass. The others all seemed to prefer a cover of weeds and bushes. It seemed to find something to eat on the dead leaves which were lying about. They were continually flying around from one cover to another. The weed grown field where I had watched the first two seemed to be a favorite place.