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found Orchard No. 3, consisting mainly of trees 

 girdled long ago and now dead. The tree in 

 use was a red maple. Its drills were about 

 twenty-five feet from the ground. One bird was 

 dipping; two more came soon after. After a 

 brief stay I went home to dinner. Returning 

 at 2.45, I stayed until 4.15. A downy wood- 

 pecker passed without going to the drills. At 

 3.35, I killed two young woodpeckers with a 

 single charge of dust shot. A few moments 

 later a humming-bird alighted in one of the 

 dead maples. At 4.10, I was drawn away by 

 the hooting of a barred owl, and did not re- 

 turn to Orchard No. 3 until August 7, when I 

 found only one sapsucker at work, a young one, 

 which I shot. I do not think that I found the 

 principal trees in this orchard. 



I ended my observations of July 28 by a visit 

 of twenty-five minutes at Orchard No. 4, which 

 I had first seen three years before. It consisted 

 of a large number of dead and a few living trees, 

 which stood on a delta formed by the Chocorua 

 River at its point of union with Chocorua Lake. 

 The part of the orchard in use was a birch, from 

 whose root rose four major trunks quickly subdi- 

 viding into fifteen minor stems each rising to a 

 height of over thirty feet. All of these fifteen 

 trunks were dead or dying. Only seven of them 

 bore leaves. I reached this orchard at 6.25 P.M., 



