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up and brought down six heavily marked green eggs. 



We pushed on, but soon found ourselves barred from 

 further progress in that direction by the narrowness of 

 the channel, so we retraced our path and started in a new 

 direction, intending to visit the western part of the marsh 

 where the water birds breed. 



But we never reached there for a violent storm coming 

 up we had to hide under a little shed to avoid getting 

 drenched to the skin. For a while it "rained pitchforks'' 

 but then it cleared off' and it getting rather late, we pro- 

 posed to row back to our starting point by another route. 



Here while moving slowly along we flushed another 

 Spotted Sandpiper and secured another fine set of three. 

 We found the Red-winged Blackbirds nesting in great 

 numbers and secured several handsome sets. 



After putting up the .boat we proposed to walk thro'u' 

 an orchard before going to the train, and while there we 



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noticed a cavity in the lower trunk of a large apple tree 

 . which might have escaped notice had it not been for the 

 feathers round the opening. 



Beating on the tree with a club, out flew a female 

 Screech Owl (S. asio) in the gray plumage. Upon ex- 

 am ning the hole we found, to our sorrow, only one egg 

 which after some discussion we left and passed on. But 

 we had hardly passed three trees before out of another 

 hole higher up in a different tree rushed another Screech 

 Owl. 



