Reappearance 
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^^cker 11 
G rosbeak 1 s 
nest 
R ed-eye 1 s 
ne st 
"Kicker” ( Black Rail) ( Porzana ?j ama i censis ?)issuing 
from the marsh on the opposite side of the river. On going 
down to the shore and stepping out on the sandsprit at my 
landing I could hear the preliminary kik- kik-kik distinctly 
and then, after a slight pause, the terminal, merry little 
quea rising from the marsh like a cheer. At times the 
sound was drowned by the bellowing of the innumerable Bull 
Frogs, at other more or less muffled by the wind, then it 
would come to my ears with startling distinctness. The 
bird appeared to be nearly where the Least Bittern was 
last week (the latter, by the way, has been either absent 
or silent since the 16th) and in or very near the thicket 
of button bushes already described in my journal. I heard 
him (the "Kicker") a few times after I went to bed and 
suppose he kept up his song through the night. 
Visited the Grosbeak's nest at 12,15 P. M. and 
again at 4 P. M. The female was sitting on both occasions. 
The Vireo was also sitting at 4 P. M. During the walk 
about my grounds with F. I saw a Carolina Dove. I have not 
heard this spedies coo for several days now. Expected to 
hear Whippoorwills this evening along the wooded rigge 
below Davis’s hill but did not. No Thrashers singing at 
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