1900 
August 4 
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Snapping 
When I first came out at half-past six this morning, 
Tuples 
a pair of big Snapping Turtles were having a desperate fight 
fighting 
near the middle of the river. The struggle lasted five 
minutes or more and the ripples caused by it covered the 
whole river from shore to shore. 
August 5 
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Scarlet 
The Tanager was still in red plumage but it had a 
Tanager 
patch of yellow feathers on each side of the breast which 
in red 
looked like recently assumed feathers of the autumnal dress. 
plumage 
It was anxious about a young bird which was near at hand and 
it flitted close about us, calling chup and erecting the 
feathers of the crown into a low crest. The young Tanager 
uttered at short, regular intervals a querulous, penetrating 
call which at a distance sounded like tu-e, near at hand 
like cher-ey or tcher-e and which was very like the hunger 
call of a young Grosbeak (Hobia) only more guttural )or 
perhaps I should say nasal) in quality. We did not see or 
hear the mother Tanager at all. 
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Uj^ind. 
Plover 
Just before breakfast this morning I walked to 
Holden's meadow where I heard the call of the Upland Plover. 
The sound was distant at first but presently came nearer 
when I discovered two of the birds flying in company at a 
great height, circling over the meadow. . . 
