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every ve:\r or so for the accommodation of the other sort. As 

 for food, wh\- buo; or bean, fish or tly, can be had at most any 

 time with a minimum search. But my fate is to be aboard 

 shi^ most all the time, where I see only Gulls and hear the mi- 

 grants at night. There are, to be sure, certain regular morning 

 and evening callers, but they do not tarry long enough to be- 

 come individual acquaintances. Just now 1 am boarding with 

 the marine guard, so 1 go through the Navy Yard every day and 

 am sure of seeing at least a pair of Mockingbirds and a Log- 

 gerhead Shrike or so, everytime. About the wharf sloops 

 the English Sparrow has full possession; Between the bell 

 tower and the marine barrack yard is quite a wide bit of sandy, 

 wind-swept ground, mostly built up by dredging from the bed 

 of the river, A few tufts of ragged unkept grass and some 

 sturdy vx'eeds do not as yet offer an excuse even for covering 

 but just stand where they are and make most of their headway 

 in the lee of the barrack yard fence. Here congregate quite a 

 nice little colony of our winter Sparrows — Savannahs, Songs 

 and Vespers, mostly. In wet weather a Svv'amp or two, and 

 more rarely a Sharp-tail, from across the road that heads down 

 to the naval hospital, there is salt marsh on that side and the 

 Clapper Rail is supreme. 



Coming to the gate the other day — February 23rd — 1 found 

 a cat in the thickest clump of grass and as she tied from the 

 usual brick bat, for all such cases made and provided, among 

 the little Sparrov\s that skittered startling out was a lovely Red- 

 poll. I saw him on a move next morning. Now it is warm again 

 and he is off and far away I hope. I thought I saw the cat 

 once since then and when I hove the brick a small goat got up 

 and looked at me leisurely. How old and blind I am getting, 

 I could not tell a goat from a cat and then could not hit it. 



W. J. HOXIE, Beaufort. S. C. 



SPRING HORIZON, NEAR LYNCHBURG, VA. 



April 26th, 1901, — Grasshopper Sparrow, Red-headed 

 Woodpecker, Yellow Warbler, Chimney Swift, Barn Swallow, 



