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as they half-spread their wings and showed their brilliant 
epaulets to us;and their plain gray-brown mates who kept darting 
out from their nests in the tussock grass or bushes; every now 
and then a Kingfisher, sounding his rattle softly as he looked 
meditatively down into the water beneath his perch on some 
dead branch, or a pair of Red-shouldered Hawks mounting in 
graceful circles into the pale blue sky and screaming shrilly; 
these were but a few of the sights and sounds that we drank in 
as we glided without the slightest effort more than the 
occasional touch on the foot-steering gear of the trimming 
of the sheet, from our camping place through Fairhaven Bay, past 
Lee Bridge and the meadows and hills beyond to Sherman's Bridge 
where we landed at ten o'clock for lunch and a rest under the 
pitch pines. 
As we were crossing Fairhaven, Spelman discovered 
Gooseanaers 
a large white bird swimming close in to the button bushes and, 
turning, gave chase. It proved to be a fine old male Goose- 
ander, broken-winged and unable to rise from the water. Doubt¬ 
less it was the same bird which Bolles and I mejj with in April. 
Spelman ran his canoe ?;ithin a few yards of it. 
At our mooring place birds were very numerous, 
especially Black-poll Warblers. A Water Thrush was singing 
at intervals and several Yellow Warblers darting about among 
Yelirow 
the bushes by the water's edge. Of the latter species three 
individuals were continually passing and repassing the spot 
Warblers 
