A PIONEER 
for not once did she come or go without 
first resting in the tree for a look-out. 
Meanwhile the mate had not ceased to 
utter a peculiar note of warning and distress. 
His part was to guard, not to feed, and 
from a fence post on the opposite side he 
kept faithful watch. Sometimes, pressed by 
hunger, he went down into the deep grass to 
feed, but his little head was ever stretched 
up on the look-out for danger, and rest- 
lessly he called, Pe ent, pe ent.” 
The mother alone seemed to take food to 
the nest, and from her movements seen 
through a field glass I judged much of this 
consisted of grasshoppers. She carried some 
of it from the bog, but a great deal was 
caught in the clover near the nest. We 
could see her stop and stretch up suspiciously 
to look about, and could watch her snap the 
bug, then start on a run under cover to the 
young. She seemed to kill the larger 
insects by tossing them up and catching 
them several times in her beak. 
Having satisfied ourselves as to where the 
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