CONCORD. 
Walter Faxon a^id Dr. Tyler oane up this afternoon in 
the hope of hearing the Kicker, \fter a walk in the woods 
and supper In the old log cabin, we went out on the xi^et 
1 i the flat boat at 7.30, The evening seemed favorable for 
Mpre**K jokers* 
.-..-r purpose* although a trifle too cool, but for more than an 
hour we rowed up and down, going as far as the head of 
Be ver Dam Lagoon, without hearing euiything more interesting 
than four or five Bull Frogs, a number of Green Frogs, a few 
Fowler *0 Toads, a Marsh Wren (at the rapids) and a Whippoor¬ 
will, The last-named bird was, no dubt, the one that has 
sung opposite the cabins for the past four or five years. 
He p, ' jn May, but not since then. We he'-.rd him 
to-night on the south side of Great Meadow near three Oak 
Island, 
About 9 o*cl >ok* as we mxe drifting before the 
light wind down the middle of the broad rerchcppslte the 
Cabins, a Kicker began calling on the Bedford ^ore near 
the entrance to our boat canal. We paddled ever there at 
once and got very near him, within thirty yards, I thou^t. 
For a time he called only at long and Irregular intervals 
and gave only the qpeey note, sometimes doubling it, the 
second syllable having a falling Inflection aueer-aueerah. 
^ His voice sounded very loud and squealing at this close 
range. After awhile he was answered by one after another 
bird further off towards the middle of Great Meadow, until 
at least fmr and we thought five different Kickers were 
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