Cat-bird. 
Pantry Brook 
{After a hurried breakfast, I spent an hour strolling 
through the woods along the neighboring hillside. In the 
pines I saw a small mixed flock (the first I have noted this 
summer) consisting of two Red-eyes, two Creepers (Mniotilta), 
two Pine Warblers, one Yellow and one Black-throated Green 
Warbler and several Chickadees. A Wood Pewee was singing 
in some oaks. I visited the slippery elm and found it still 
alive, although much injured by "barking". . 
When I returned to the landing, the Cat-bird was 
in full song. He is a rare performer, quite the best I 
have ever heard and nearly equal to a. Mocking-bird. 
At 8 A. M. I launched the canoe and,alternately 
paddling and sailing,reached Pantry Brook in about an hour 
and lunched there, sitting in my canoe at the foot of the 
sluice. A Marsh Hawk pursued by several irate Red-wings 
skimmed past me. Bobolinks were chinki ng (or pink ing) in 
the meadow — at least forty of them. Only Song and Swamp 
Sparrows singing. The large hill to the soiith-east has been 
recently burned over and many trees are dead or dying. I 
found there to-day upwards of fifty canoe birches of fair 
size. Looked for the round-leaved cornel but saw only 
two plants. Dwarf cornel on the north slope -- a good bed 
of it. 
At 1 P. M. 
set sail and started back, making very 
quick time to Fairhaven. Three Red-tailed Hawks were soaring 
