The Halcyon in Canada. 



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HAWK AND KIM.HIKI). 



abounded, striking up his clear, sweet whistle at times so loud and 

 sudden that one's momentary impression was that some farm-boy 

 was approaching or was secreted there behind the logs. Many 

 times, amid those primitive solitudes, I was quite startled by the 

 human tone and quality of this whistle. It is little more than a 

 beginning; the bird never seems to finish the strain suggested. 

 The Canada jay was there also, very busy about some important 

 private matter. 



( >nc lowery morning as I was standing in camp, I saw a lot of 

 ducks borne swiftly down by the current around the bend in the 

 river a few rods above. They saw me at the same instant and 

 turned toward the shore. On hastening up there, I found the old 

 bird rapidly leading her nearly grown brood through the woods, as 

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