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No^ea on 
Finch 
On the 15th I found what was certainly a different 
bird In thr belt of bushes «l 3 . the waterfront at the 
west•m end of '^11*© Hill, it wae silent and cooperatively 
to.ae, but an adroit a&ulter, keeping const ntly behind the 
stems of the btiohee and run:: lag nimbly from one cover to 
the next ar I advanced. On the 19th I goto brief but 
satisfactory glimpse of still another bird in a thicket of 
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low bushes behind ball's Rill, 
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From five of these birds I learned practically 
nothing that was new to my experience, but the sixth gave 
;;ie some rare opportunities for studying its interesting 
notes and habits. It appeared, as I have already said, 
on the 15th and remained until the forenoon of the 23:id, 
spending its nhole time within or on the n't skirts of the 
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thicket of bushes between the smaller cabin and the c :noe 
landing. In a bed of ferns on the edge of this thicket, 
directly In front of the small cabin and sue fifteen feet 
from the poor, we kept a quantity of millet seed scattered 
about over th- ground. This w s visited by the Fi oh at 
frequent intervals and, nodubt, constituted hie chief 
food supply during his stay. It nay have had•something to 
do with the of his stay, also, but the weather wae 
very cool during this period and a number of other birds 
stayed in th® some thicket for nearly the same length of 
tine. 
