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the top of a stub, but usually the topmost slender twigs 
of a bo is immortel. It was a revelation to see a Goat sucker 
perch in this manner. Another M Po-me-one" with a much finer 
voice than ours was calling in the distance most of the time. 
An hour later, after walking’ down the road for half-a-mile 
or more, seeing nothing but a small Bat which flew as slowly 
as a moth back and forth, low down over the road, we 
returned and kept up the road towards the bridge. Our 
"Po-me-one 11 was calling in the old place but a few whistles 
from Carr brought him to us from a distance of fully 200 
yards. We kept him calling near us for more than half-an~ 
hour. He changed his perch many times, alighting usually 
in the tops of the tallest forest trees. Once he chose a 
stub, when I saw distinctly that, although sitting per¬ 
fectly erect, his tail did not touch the wood at all. On 
another occasion he and a second bird — his mate, no doubt, 
perched in the same tree on smal^ horizontal branches on 
which they both sat crosswise . On no occasion did we see 
either perch lengthwise vfith a branch. 
The male once scaled on set wings from the woods 
across a wide opening, moving very slowly and in an indes¬ 
cribably stately manner -- just as he came to his feeding 
stub the other evening. 
Thus we settled the Po-me-one mystery but of course 
it remains to kill the bird, which neither of us cared to 
