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young clung to the mother's teats. I do not yet know 
whether or not she rescued those that fell into the water. 
(Noi all thus dropped perished.) 
^Sailed nearly the whole of the way to Ball's Hill 
seeing nothing of particular interest. Swallows less 
numerous than yesterday. I hear more Black-billed Cuckoos 
than Yellow-bills now. 
Red-eyed 
Vireo's 
eggs hatch 
At 4 P. M. visited the Red-eyed Vireo's nest and 
found two of the young hatched, the third egg very dark but 
not, so far as I could see, chipped. Curiously enough the 
parent bird was not sitting and did not appear while I was 
at the ne st. 
Young 
Grosbeaks 
leave nest 
The Grosbeak's nest was empty and deserted. I 
pulled it down and found a few tufts of grayish down 
clinging to the lining. Probably the young have flown* 
since yesterday, but a tragedy is not, of course, impossible 
I wish now that I had examined it before this. On the 
ground directly beneath it I found half of the shell of 
one of the eggs showing that the bird merely pitched it 
over the edge of the nest when the young hatched. 
Walked across my land to Lee Davis's hill. On 
its south slope among the scattering young growth of oaks 
Dove 
in the sandy opening where the Partridges dust in the 
autumn I flushed a Carolina Dove directly under foot. 
* As I passed through the thicket near the nest on July 4 
one of the old birds appeared and began to chirp anxiously, 
thus indicating that its young were near. 
