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cuckoo, the latter unexpectedly early (April 
11), since Mr. Chapman had recorded it as 
arriving at Gainesville at a date sixteen days 
later than this. 
I did not repeat my visit to Lake Brad- 
ford; but, not to give up the ivory-bill too 
easily,— and because I must walk some- 
where, — | went again as far as the palmetto 
scrub. This time, though I still missed the 
woodpecker, I was fortunate enough to come 
upon a turkey. In the thickest part of the 
wood, as I turned a corner, there she stood 
before me in the middle of the road. She 
ran along the horse-track for perhaps a rod, 
and then disappeared among the palmetto 
leaves. 
Meanwhile, two or three days before, 
while returning from St. Mark’s, whither I 
had gone for a day on the river, I had 
noticed from the car window a swamp, or 
baygall, which looked so promising that I 
went the very next morning to see what it 
would yield. I had taken it for a cypress 
swamp, but it proved to be composed mainly 
of oaks; very tall but rather slender trees, 
heavily draped with hanging moss and 
standing in black water. Among them were 
