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a. rich unbroken carpet which covered the ground as far as 
the eye could reach under the trees. The old gold of young 
hickories and the lemon yellow of poplara (grandident&ta 
gleamed in numerous places among the oaks like patches of 
sunlight. 
^Birds were scarce. Two small flocks of Robins, 
one among pines in the picnic grounds, with a following of 
Juncos, Yellow-rumps and Chickadees, a few Jays and a flock 
of about a dozen Crows feeding in the tops of some chestnuts 
at Walden were about all that we saw. Where are the spotted 
Thrushes this year? I have seen only one Olive-back and 
one Hermit this autumn.J 
Walden was very beautiful indeed, the water dark 
blue and ruffled with wind, the woods about its shores most 
rich in autumn tints. 
I picked up a young Tree Toad no bigger than a 
Pickering's Hyla and of a pale fawn color very like a Wood 
Frog for which, indeed, I at first mistook it. Heard only 
one Pickering's Hyla to-day. 
Reached home as twilight was falling. 
