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Ball’s 
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April . 
Apr . 23 
Apr . 28 
Gal 1 inago delicata . 
Hill, Concord, Mass. 
Island using our glasses freely we did not once get our eyes 
on the bird and unfortunately we had no means of crossing the 
river. At times, however, the Snipe must have come within 
200 yards or less judging by the sound of his wings while 
drumming. He cackled every now and then. We heard him first 
from just behind Ball's Hill a distance of fully half a mile. 
He stopped drumming at 8 A.M. About half -an -hour before sun- 
set he was at it again keeping it up until dark. 
Shortly after sunset a Snipe began drumming on the mead- 
ows opposite Benson's landing keeping it up at intervals for 
half-an-hour or more. Twice this same and another bird gave 
the kep -kep -ke p -ke p -ke v call or cackle very distinctly and 
apparently not over 100 yards from where I was standing but 
on the other side of the river. 
After tea we (W. Faxon and I ) took the ^d wooden boat 
and rowed up to the Beaver Dam Rapid. The meadows were sim- 
ply alive with Snipe and their drumming and cackling for an 
hour or more was almost incessant. 
