The chip-bird in the morning is no longer heard.

August 1.

August 1, 2020

I think that that universal crowing of the chip-bird in the morning is no longer heard.

Is it the Galium circæzans which I have seen so long on Heywood Peak and elsewhere, with four broad leaves, low and branched? Put it early in June.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, August 1, 1853

I think that that universal crowing of the chip-bird in the morning is no longer heard.  See August 17, 1858 ("Still hear the chip-bird early in the morning, though not so generally as earlier in the season."); );October 5, 1858 ("I still see large flocks, apparently of chip birds, on the weeds and ground in the yard.”); October 7, 1860 ("Now and for a week the chip-birds in flocks; the withered grass and weeds, etc., alive with them.") See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, The Chipping Sparrow (Fringilla socialis )


Is it the Galium circæzans which I have seen so long on Heywood Peak, with four broad leaves, low and branched? See July 22, 1852 ("Galium circæzans, wild liquorice, in Baker Farm Swamp"); August 24, 1857 ("The Galium circæzans leaves taste very much like licorice and, according to B., produce a great flow of water, also make you perspire and are good for a cold.")