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22nd, saw two Sand-hill Cranes going N. 23rd, ice on the river 
breaking up. 24th, afriend shot a male Pintail; river almost clear. 
25th, Anemone in flower; grass showing green. 
May 9th.—About the end of April I saw a Woodpecker, and 
shot a fine Buffel-headed Drake—a grand specimen. On the 
28th I observed a Ring Plover [Agialitis semipalmatus]. On the 
29th shot a Pochard; saw numbers of Snipe, Sand-hill Cranes, 
Martins, and a Short-eared Owl, also a butterfly like a Camberwell 
Beauty. Early in May I got specimens of Meadow Larks 
[Sturnella magna], Red-winged Starlings, and Buntings; and on 
the 8th saw eight Lesser Yellowshanks [Totanus flavipes]. By 
the first week of May most of the Ducks had arrived, but the 
large flights of Blue-winged Teal had not yet appeared. Thus 
far the Ducks noticed this spring are Mallard, Pintail, Shoveller, 
Scaup, Pochard, Buffel-head, Blue-winged Teal, Green-winged 
Teal, Wood Duck, Butter Duck (Buffel-head), American Wigeon 
(called “Summer Duck” by the Indians), and a Duck very like a 
Scaup, which I am not able to identify. [Probably the American 
Scaup, Fuligula affinis——Ep.] Two friends of mine were away 
shooting in the second week of May, and brought home (amongst 
other birds) three Sclavonian Grebes, an Esquimaux Curlew 
[? footnote, p. 226], and a Canvas-back Duck. 
May 25th.—The close time begins on May 15th for all kinds 
of wildfowl, so I had a last day before the season ended; my bag 
was thirty-seven head, including four Plover, a Buzzard, Bittern, 
and two species of Grebe, ten Eared and Sclavonian Grebes. 
Since then I got a Golden Plover in full summer plumage, and a 
Ring Dotterel exactly like our Tees-mouth friend; when I picked 
it up I could almost imagine myself at Redcar again. [Doubtless 
Aigialitis semipalmatus—Ep.] A great many Gulls passed over 
here about the middle of May, and I also heard that the Black 
Terns had arrived at their breeding-quarters. The Blue-winged 
Teal is now in great force; in fact, most of the summer birds 
have arrived. The weather now (end of May) is very hot, and the 
mosquitoes are beginning to be troublesome. Last evening I saw 
a Goatsucker and heard the Whip-poor- Will. 
June 4th.—Early in June I had a ramble out to the Brandon 
Hills, eight miles south of here. I discovered a lake, about a 
mile long by about half-a-mile broad, full of Ducks; it is right 
amongst the hills, which are clothed with woods on two sides of 
