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Quail 
Pickering; 
Hylas 
northern in its flora. The resemblance is probably due to 
(Leather leaf) 
the abundance of Cassandra, now dull and rusty in tint, and 
to the stunted, gnarled character of the scattered birches 
and pitch pines which, doubtless, get more water than is good 
for them, although the place is seldom flooded. There are a. 
few clusters of vivid green high blueberry bushes, sprinkled 
about, and in places cotton grass rearing its white, flower- 
like heads which seem(ed) to attract the yellow butterflies. 
The entire opening is encircled by a belt of young but tall 
and vigorous white pines, gray birches, maples, chestnuts, 
oaks and hickories with an undergrowth of high blueberries 
(White alder) 
and Clethra, the latter covered with creamy-white blossoms 
which loaded the air with their strong fragrance resembling 
that of tube roses. 
As I sat looking out through the foliage, I heard 
Crows cawing and a Quail whistling "bob-white" at short, 
regular intervals in the distance towards the west. Near 
at hand a Jay chucked, a Towhee called, a Cedar Bird lisped. . 
Overhead high against the sulphury white clouds a few 
Swifts circled,twittering. Once I heard the pink of a 
Bobolink, passing southward. The dry, stammering autumn 
call of Pickering’s Hylas came at frequent intervals from 
the surrounding woods (I heard this autumn call yesterday 
for the first time this month) and the frying notes of the 
Cicada were almost incessant, one beginning almost immediately 
after another had ceased. The grasshoppers and crickets 
