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Englewood, N.J. [New Jersey]
1897
June 28.
(No 2)
from every direction far and near. More than once we had four
or five birds of each species singing within twenty or thirty
yards of us and both species appeared to be very evenly dis-
tributed throughout the swamp which is at least one quarter of
a mile in length.
  Everywhere along the borders of the wood were thickets of
alder in full bloom the snowy cymes gleaming against the dusky
background. As we came into a large opening white with
daisies and shimmering with the dancing lights of innumerable
fireflies a Woodcock passed close over us, flying down into
the swamp.
  Later, as we were sitting under the trees at Chapman's,
a Barn Owl called once in the distance giving a single, short,
husky scream which I did not hear sufficiently well to de-
scrbe here, but which at the time suggested the haink of Ar-
dea Herodias.