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Next morning we visited a tract of 

 ground almost laid bare by the lumber- 

 men and were much pleased to find, beside 

 great flocks of robins and innumerable 

 winter wrens in the underbrush, 

 two American three-toed wood- 

 peckers. Their notes are harsher 

 than those of the hairy or sap- 

 sucker, which were also about, 

 and one beat a tattoo on a dead 

 tree loud enough to make a drummer boy 

 green with envy. A broad-winged hawk 

 was seen flying over the spring and a brace 

 of woodcock were flushed from the alders 

 where the inlet enters. 



The last occupant of the camp had 

 evidently had a little misunderstanding 

 with a porcupine, for ceiling, walls, win- 

 dow, and floor were covered with his 

 quills. That afternoon, as we left the foot 

 of the inlet on our way homeward, two 

 swamp sparrows were discovered in the 

 grass on the slough's edge where the red- 

 wings dwell and a pigeon hawk was in 

 command of the slough where but a day 

 or two ago a red-shouldered hawk had 

 held sway. 



The evening preceding my departure 



