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Of the other birds along the St. Mark's 

 railway, let it be enough to mention white- 

 throated and white-crowned sparrows, red- 

 eyed chewinks (the white-eye was not found 

 in the Tallahassee region), a red-bellied 

 woodpecker, two red - shouldered hawks, 

 shrikes, kingbirds, yellow-throated warblers, 

 Maryland yellow-throats, pine warblers, 

 palm warblers, which in spite of their 

 name seek their summer homes north of 

 the United States, myrtle warblers, now 

 grown scarce, house wrens, summer tan- 

 agers, and quails. The last-named birds, 

 by the way, I had expected to find known 

 as "partridges" at the South, but as a 

 matter of fact I heard that name applied 

 to them only once. On the St. Augustine 

 road, before breakfast, I met an old negro 

 setting out for his day's work behind a 

 pair of oxen. " Taking some good exer- 

 cise?" he asked, by way of a neighborly 

 greeting; and, not to be less neighborly 

 than he, I responded with some remark 

 about a big shot-gun which occupied a con- 

 spicuous place in his cart. " Oh," he said, 

 "game is plenty out where we are going, 

 about eight miles, and I take the gun 



