Fox 
At the cabin they sang and fed during the thunder 
Sparrows 
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showers when the rain was falling fast. Their back became 
quickly covered with bead or rather pearl-like drops which 
rolled off without wetting their plumage perceptibly. In¬ 
deed, it was perfectly evident that they kept practically 
dry although exposed to the full force of these showers. 
Song 
|The migration of Song Sparrows probably reached 
Sparrows 
its height to-day. The country was simply alive with them. 
They were much more generally distributed than the Fox 
Sparrows with which they seemed to associate, however, when 
chance threw the two species together. The Song Sparrows 
sang freely but not as regularly and persistently as they 
do in their breeding season. 
Juneos 
Juncos, also, were very numerous and generally 
distributed. They sang a good deal,using the simple summer 
trill and not once uttering the warbling medley that one 
hears so often in early March. 
Birds seen 
On the way down river I saw a Gray Squirrel near 
along the 
Hunt’s Landing, a Meadow Lark, a Flicker, a Red-tailed 
river 
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Hawk, a Red-shouldered Hawk with nearly or quite half of 
the quills missing, giving the wings a sadly ragged appear¬ 
ance, a female Hooded Merganser which flew from the edge 
of the flooded bushes opposite Dakin’s Hill, a Herring Gull, 
a solitary Canada Goose, and six Black Ducks. 
Canada 
The Goose was flying about over the flooded meadows 
Goose 
at a height of only thirty or forty yards. It appeared 
to be looking for a safe place to alight but when about 
opposite Ball’s Hill was fired at by some men in a canoe 
