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over toward the south, and the rays of 

 the setting sun behind the mountains 

 lighted up his bright red plumage so that 

 he fairly seemed to burn. 



Anchor ice formed during the night of 

 the twenty-eighth and ninth on the bottom 

 of the Androscoggin, so 

 that a canoe trip had to 

 be given up. Just before 

 dark a sheldrake passed, 

 flying east down the river 

 valley ; as long as the river 

 remains open, one may 

 now and then see this spe- 

 cies about Shelburne. 

 When the snow is deep upon the moun- 

 tains, the deer feed upon the boughs of 

 the hubble-bush and young birch ; we 

 found during our tramps trees and bushes 

 off which they had dined. Small flocks 

 of pine siskins were heard twice along the 

 edge of the clearings. 



On the last day of our visit we again 

 went up the same logging road back of 

 the farm. As usual, by the camp we 

 started a grouse, and among the spruces 

 the nuthatches, chickadees, and kinglets 

 were very numerous. With a birch call 



