&llti to 
C.-' 
and with apprehension, then she rooted her way directly 
into it, and disappeared. For a moment the mass quivered 
and pulsated as she worked her way through it. The next, 
she was looking out again, her fears now calmed hy the 
discovery that her darlings were safe. Both young were 
alive with large brown fleas. 
In an old Hairy Woodpecker’s nest, not over two 
hundred yards away, another flying squirrel had a home. He 
protruded his head when we rapped on the trunk, but would 
not come out; as the hole was some thirty feet above the 
ground we did not disturb him. 
[~Few birds were singing this morning, except Gros¬ 
beaks, of which we heard and saw perhaps a dozen. The 
strange absence of Northern emigrants continues a marked 
feature of this season, or this locality. I saw a single 
Zonotrichia Albicollis ( White—throated Sparrow ) 
this morning but nothing else that does not regularly 
summer here. 
The apple blossoms are past their prime but they 
hold out wonderfully, and many of the trees have not shed 
a petal yet 71 
