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but the resemblance between it and that of a Song Sparrow 

 was so close that it would be difficult, without seeing the birds, 

 to identify it. Three days afterwards I re-visited the spot 

 and found the owner seated on the nest. In leaving it she did 

 not fly out directly, but acted much in the same manner as a 

 Water Thrush, by jumping down into the shallow water and 

 skulking off among the grasses, and then, when a few rods off, 

 rose to a perch and began her scold, which enabled me to iden- 

 tify her with certainty. I found in the nest a full set of five 

 beautifully-marked eggs, which I collected with as much pleas- 

 ure as though it belonged to a more rare and valuable species. 

 This nest was composed of pieces of half rotten weeds and 

 coarse grasses, and neatly lined with fine dry grass, quite com- 

 pact, and warmly put together, and was about a foot above the 

 water, out of which the tuft of grass arose. The eggs, which 

 average about .78x.5o, are of a greenish -white hue, variously 

 mottled with reddish brown. This species usually arrives in 

 this vicinity about the 20th of April, and leaves again in Sep- 

 tember, but its advent and departure vary with the tem- 

 perature of the seasons. Its food is chiefly the smaller spe- 

 cies of such insects as frequent the low, damp places, which, 

 during the summer, are effected by its presence, and also such 

 small, soft berries as grow amid such scenery. 

 Listoivell, Ontario. 



My First Hunt in Florida. 



BY F. C. BAKER. 



One morning, in the early part of January, I arose at an early 



