Norwich bulletin., 1911-05-13
HE QUlN TalP
The Quail Trap orchestra First 1911 Rehearsal Per formers Present. Related Talent Second Full Dress Matinee Breeding of Brown parnidae Evening Grosbeak Outstays Its Record.

N The Quall Ifap, May Il, I9ll---Ine first rehearsal of the Quail Trap or cllestra was at 6 a. m. Friday, May 29. Bob White was leader, and it was the very first appearance this season in open air concerts of the prima donna asSoluta Madam, Browne Thrasher. Meadow lark, redwing. robin. jay. yes- per and song sparroWs, bluebird, che wink, purple finch, and the new bari tone from Hungary. Sig. Browne Part ridge. were all in the ensemble at this premiere. The drilling of downy and flicker in the dead tops of our ash trees was the tympani aided by the resident stake driver. first heard on this Ocea- sion. The chairs were turned down for several prominent soloists expect ed from abroad every day.
 The victrola and the knabe are lock- cd and tho music room at the Quail Trap closed for the season. Totrazzini and Caruso at second hand are poor medicine for song-sick souls when the outdoor world is filled with music from a thousand freshly tuned tllroats. The second grand concert was begun at 5.So a. m. May 10th. with augmented cho- rus and orchestra. Lord Baltimore, five days late from Palm Beach, came on the 11th, but his clarinet oblixato was as welcome and effective as ever.
 The rollicking brarura of Robert o. Lincoln, who came from Carolina
 
 and Rosy Grosbeaks rolling whistle was the mildest of piccolos. The Green let Trio was much admired, the fa1Set- to of Miss Veery Wren attracted at tention, hut the greatest interest seem ed to center in the wonderful con4ralto of Mad. Woode-Thrushe- TanaSra Ru- bra. rang true, Khatte Burd was slight ly below the key, and so was Indigo's faint rhapsody Chats phraaing was excellent and Swift's twitter not lack ing in spirit. In fact. all the old musf- clans and singers were in their usual places, though Veery's wild reedy in- strumeut was missed and Cuckoo's viol unstrung. The largest string of Can ada geese ever saw flew over during the height of the overture; the whole 300 seemed to be honking as they swerved from southeast to due north. These morning recitals will be contin- used till summer heat drives feathered bipeds and bipeds befeathered to exclusions of shade. at sea, sound and shore.
 WhippoorwilI first called here at a. m. Saturday, April 29th- I have not run across this goatsucker breeding here. though it's calls are heard on all sides of the cottage throughout the season. Though our own bob whites did not begin calling till April 18th. the big covey on Gravelly brook were
 
 unbroken covfes an Muddy brook were saving More Wet eight dAys before our cocks were heard from. I saw quail ep Saturday, April 3oth. when I was dig gfnE up purple heeches at Mapiew cod Norwich Though farmers deplored the general absence of 8 snow blanket the open winter kept a great part of the game birds here safe from the tal- ons and claws of day enemies and night providers, and we look for more quail than for several years.
 Our special wards, the two lots oi Hungarian partridges, are not so wild as when we freed them, have not late ly used the distressful, homesick cry, and appear now to be quite at home with their present environment. hear of no casualties except one lame hen caught and eaten by neighbor's bull dog. Thomas Hedges, a North Wood stock farmer and hunter, says that he knew of a covey of six of these birds last fall and shot one. MT. Hedge s daughter is said to have found a set of eggs of this introduced species a cartridges left the nest all right. This is the only local record of their breed ing. At that time none had been lib erated nearer than RoHnfret. A pail was seen yesterday and last Friday a bunch of four were marked down by MT. Irwin Paine. So,. reviewing all local data, we have stronger hopes that our home lot of brown cartridges will breed
 grey squirrel, cireiins the walls oi cur house lot, is in the angle of vision as I write. I know not whether he is foraging or mating so far afeld. but I now see him, skipping ever his stons highway straight for the woods nearly a quarter of mile away. The squir- rels in the woods seem to be all on the