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weather was cold, and birds extremely scarce. Twenty or 

 thirty Redheads, some Ruddy Ducks and Old-squaws, a bunch 

 of one hundred Scaup and a few Black Ducks, and in the dim 

 distance what were said to be Geese comprised all the game 

 birds observed. Pied-billed and Horned Grebes were abundant, 

 and a single Holboell's Grebe was seen. 



The evening of May 12, 1905, found me again at Millsboro, 

 prepared this time to learn something of the bird life of this 

 region, which I had hitherto seen only at unfavorable seasons. 

 I set out early the following morning in a gasoline launch, 

 headed down the bay. 



House Wrens and Baltimore Orioles were especially abundant 

 in the village, and the Oriole was frequently heard later in the 

 adjacent country. Blackpoll Warblers had not reached Kennett 

 Square, Pa. , when I left home, but were singing here near the 

 boat landing. When I landed, two or three miles down the 

 river, I saw a flock of Least Sandpipers and what I took for 

 Lesser Yellowlegs. 



A new song was heard among some bushes at the border of 

 the mar.sh, and pushing my way through to an opening in the 

 thicket, I was able to collect my first Henslow's Sparrow. I 

 have seen this bird in New Castle County, but not in the nesting 

 or singing season. To me the note resembles more the words 

 "switch 'em," "switch 'em," than the "amen" of Mr. 

 Rhoads' paper.* Farther down the bay a Bald Eagle was being 

 persecuted by a Crow, and a Loon flew so close to the boat thai 

 I could clearly distinguish the markings on his neck. On visit- 

 ing a pool in the marsh I flushed a Solitary Sandpiper and a 

 drake Black Duck. An earlier interview with some other "or- 

 nithologist" had somewhat impaired his activity, else his red 

 legs would no doubt have long since been paddling in more 

 northern climes. Next day, however, I saw a pair of Black 

 Ducks swimming confidingly together, and have no doubt they 

 intended to remain and nest in this locality, but I presume 

 their legs were dark. 



Down near the "inlet," or more properly, the outlet of In- 



*Cassinia, 1902, p. 6. 



