Concord, 
1898. 
June 6. 
June 9. 
June 11. 
Porzana .iaiaa icons is . ( ? ) . 
lvIass< The "Kicker" again. 
Tool; tea at the Keyes'. It was raining when I left there 
a little before nine o'clock and the night was so dark that 
I could hardly find my way back to the canoe. """" Soon 
after I entered the meadows the song of the mysterious "Kick- 
er" came faintly to ray ears. The bird proved to be somewhere 
near the middle of the Great Meadow about opposite the upi^er 
end of the Holt. 
The "Kicker" was singing this evening somewhere out on 
the Great Meadow. 
At intervals through the forenoon as I was at work near 
the cabin I heard the Xi-kj,-ki-ki , ki-kekl of the mysterious 
"Kicker" coming from near the middle of the Great Meadow. Soon 
after sunset the bird began again and sang steadily up to the 
time I went to bed. He had apparently come a little nearer 
although as I walked along the river path to Bensen's landing 
I could with difficulty catch the final or M§X. kis 
h 
song. What was my surprise therefore to find that as I con- 
tinued on my walk and turned my back to the river I carrieu 
the sound of the ki-ki far inland without seemimg to lose much 
of its strength. I actually heard it with reasonable dis- 
tinctness when I reached Davis's Hill although this point is 
nearly half— a— mile distant from Bensen's landing with a pine 
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