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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, | 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, 
“‘oame is plenty out where we are going, 
about eight miles, and I take the gun 
