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and acted as if undecided whether to immediately realight 
or not, making as it were a halting flight. I have fre¬ 
quently heard the vocal sounds just described on similar 
occasions and also when a bird has started to run a little 
way before flying. I doubt if they are ever given by a 
bird in swift flight or by one which rises strongly. They 
are perhaps oftenest heard from a wing-broken bird just 
roused from its place of concealment. 
On my way across country from Holden’s I saw 
innumerable Rabbit tracks wherever there was enough snow 
to show them well. Doubtless a single Rabbit will make 
many tracks in a night but there was sufficient variation 
in the size of the foot-prints to convince me that each cover 
where I saw them contained several of these animals. The 
tracks followed more or less well-beaten paths in places, 
in others wandered about, crossing and recrossing openings 
in the bushes and winding about among their stems. The 
Rabbits had even visited small, exposed thickets of willows 
and cornels on the river banks or meadows several rods from 
the woods. There wa,s much variation in the tracks that I 
saw to-day but as a rule the foot-prints were squarely in 
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pairs thus: Sometimes the four prints were nearly or 
quite amalgamated, thus:S'c5> ^ . Those of the hind 
feet were always in advance. I did not see a single track 
of this style^cs « Why? Most of the tracks were on 
ice covered with thin damp snow and the impressions were 
