A Kicker 
hecjfd In 
front of 
the cablnB 
on the 
shore 
That a bird of some kind wavS the author of these 
sounds we all felt oonvlaced this evening (Dr# Tyler hearing 
then for the first time). The bird near ue apparently 
moved his position a distance of fifteen or tmnty yards 
while we were listening to him# He seemed to be at first 
la a bed of plcke-el week at the entrance to the canal, 
afterwards further back among the grass# The entire neadow 
where these Kickers were heard is flooded (and has been 
for the past week or more) to a depth of from six to 
thirteen inches, the grass rising above the water (and 
concealing It perfectly) to a height of from one to two 
or three feet. 
Faxon and Tyler left me at 10 P. ?l, to return to 
Lexington# After sculling back across the river, I landed 
at our boat pit and was standing there, talkli^ with Harry, ^ 
with a big lantern on the ground between us, casting a 
brilliant light around when, to my great astonishment, a 
Kicker began singing ( )cl- kl«»»kl*.a ueaft) apparently within 
fifteen or twenty yards of us and unmistakably on the Pall’s 
Hill side of the river, somewlig^e in the fringe of bushes 
beneath the big maples that grow along the edge of water 
just to the eastward of the entrance to the l>oat pit. I 
heard him a dozen times or more before I left the place 
and Harry tells me he kept it up for an hour or ore later 
into the night. Hever before have 1 heard oiie with^jd such 
distinctness so apparently near at hand. 
