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gun dipping when he saw the owl and raised the 

 alarm. Over thirty birds came, including two 

 hummers. By 6.30 the noise subsided, and the 

 sapsucker, who had not left the tree at all, re- 

 sumed his dipping. A male hummer was also dip- 

 ping at 6.31. At 6.42, the sapsucker was dipping 

 within seven feet of my head, and the hummer was 

 perched close by. At 6.47, the hummer buzzed in 

 Scops' face and then perched again. At 6.52, an- 

 other hummer came and both flew away ; at 6.54 

 both came back, but went again. At 6.56 Scops, 

 whose wing was clipped, jumped nearly six feet 

 at the young sapsucker, at whom he had been 

 glaring for some time. The woodpecker flew 

 with a loud cry, scolded for a long time and then 

 disappeared. I nailed a birch bark cup to one 

 of the stems, and while doing it a hummer came 

 and looked at me. Later he came again, looked 

 at the cup and dipped at drills close above it. 



I spent from 10 A.M. until 12.34 at Orchard 

 No. 2, for the purpose of shooting all sapsuckers 

 seen there. I found last year's tree again in use, 

 and those in use July 24 and 25 temporarily 

 abandoned. From 10 to 10.48, the sapsuckers 

 seen, spent all their time catching insects on the 

 wing, sometimes flying fifty feet for them. Hum- 

 ming-birds were numerous, and, as I had no- 

 ticed was the case with this orchard, were un- 

 molested even when dipping within a foot of a 



