AUDUBON JOURNAL 



Tweet and out of sight in an instant. Much disapointed 

 at My having lost the only oppr^ I Ever have had of 

 procuring this rare Bird. 



Shot several of the Yellow Throated Warbler all alike 

 and all Males the woods were full of them and yet 

 Not a femelle could I Shot — they Move sideways on 

 the small limbs of the Cypress in a Hoping Manner 

 extremely quickly hang often to the ends of Limbs 

 like the titmouse and run up or down the Large 

 Trunks much like the Nuthatches — Killed Many Blue 

 Yellow back Warblers. Saw Many Prothonotarjys, several 

 Watter Thrushes that I consider More Like Warblers 

 the Habits of Which genus they exibit to a very great 

 degree and the Bill of Which they [co] have — Alli- 

 gators as numerous as before basking in the Sun that 

 this day was more than ordinarily uncomfortable — 

 saw several Ibiss at respectful Distances in their com- 

 mon dull postures — 



My Litle fly Catcher had only one wing touch'* 

 When I presented Myself to pick it up, it spread its 

 Tail & open its Wings and Snap its bill [20 or] about 

 20 times in the [ — ] Manner that Many of this Genus 

 do when they seize a fly, particularly those that are 

 Nearest the Standard of the Genus. — I seldom have 

 seen a bird of Such Small size With so Large & beau- 

 tifull an Eye. I took it home to James Perrie's Es^'" and 

 had the pleasure of drawing it While a live and full of 

 Spirit, it often Made off' from My fingers by starting 



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