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five Jmncos. There were at least two White-throated Sparrows 
with them. One, a particularly high-colored bird with rich 
yellow loral stripes, allowed us to get within two or three 
yards of him, acting as if tired and sleepy, closing his 
eyes at intervals. Probably he dropped in early this morning- 
after a long migrating flight. 
f~For the first time in five years I went through 
the pine ¥/oods without seeing anything of the Cooper's Hawks. 
I fear that something has happened to them."'': 
We met a farmer , the owner of about 200 acres of 
this region, as we were passing through a wood path. He 
told us that it was a great country for Owls and that he had 
killed at least five different kinds while fox hunting. 
Foxes are numerous. He baited one last winter and shot him 
from under cover of a shed one moonlight night. 
We visited the apple tree where Faxon and I found 
a Screech Owl a week or two ago. The hole was empty this 
morning but Bolles climbed to another higher up which proved 
to contain one bird. We could not get at him except by 
tearing the branch to pieces, for the cavity was very narrow 
and descended at least two feet. There was an opening not 
over an inch in diameter at the bottom through which we could 
look directly in on the Owl who when poked with a twig 
retreated backward and downward into a crevice, where he stood 
bof&j) upright, snovfing only his face framed in dark, water-soaked 
wood, his eyes half-closed, as usual. There were no signs 
