Juat outside the bushes is a broad belt of pickerel 
weed gro^lag in water now two or three feet deep# I often 
see Carolina Hails along this sdiore in early autuatrij some¬ 
times half-wading, half-swintmiag throt^h the piokerel weed# 
A sound wholly new to all of us was heard many times 
to-night between d and 10 o*clock. It seemed to come from 
an isolated or island bed of piokerel weed on the edge of 
the river directly across from the cabins. It bore some 
resemblance to the single coo of the Yellow-bellied 
Cuckoo, repeated eight or ten times, but was unlike it in 
quality, having a siiigular wheesy or asthmatic tone. Mm 
we were near the place (20 to 3o yards) it seemed rather 
loud but on retreating we found It did not carry to a 
‘distance greater than 75 to 100 yards# Beyond 50 yards 
it was so indistinctas to be unnotloeable# 
It pussled us oorfg)letely at first, but we finally 
noticed that ©very time it was uttered several Bull Frogs 
answered it in quick succession and that the time was 
essentially the sane as that of the Bull Frogs*"trooping**# 
So we decided that it must be merely the bellowing of a 
Bull Frog that had something wrong with his vdice* (I 
learned afterwards, however, on June 30, that lir# Smith 0. 
Dexter heard It on subsequent evenings at several places 
along the river between Bill’s Kill and the Big Lagoon, 
and once he heard it answered by another similar voice coming 
from a spot 50 yards or more away. These facts seem to 
dispose of the theory that It is made by a Btill Frog# 
