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Curious 
Flicker* s 
nest 
so we did not molest it. The female came with food for the 
young and entered the nest, when the male perched literally 
on the fim and sang — a pretty sight. 
Spelman discovered a Flicker's nest in a singular 
place — in a vertical slit 8 inches long by 2 inches wide 
in the side of an apple tree. The bottom of the slit was 
only 30 inches above the ground. The interior cavity 
narrowed as it descended so that I found it impossible to force 
my hand and wrist down far enough to reach the four pink-tinted 
white eggs which lay in plain sight on the usual bed of chips 
at the bottom. There were no signs of any enlargement by the 
Woodpecker except at the bottom where a rounded space had 
been chiseled out. 
Gallinule 
Black Duck 
Wood Duck 
At 1 P. M. we hoisted sail and started on our way. 
The wind had now hauled well into the east but we made the 
lower Wayland Bridge without being obliged to paddle more 
than a few hundred, yards in all. Soon after entering the 
great Sudbury Meadows Spelman, who was leading, started a 
Florida Gallinule. It rose from a bed of tall, dark green 
round-stemmed rushes on the edge of the river and flew about 
50 yrds before dropping into the rushes again. I had a good 
view of it and shw the scarlet bill distinctly. 
A single Black Duck was seen flying over this 
meadow and Wood Ducks heard squalling. 
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