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with a slight a&e«4?©**e-of doubt) as Grebes. Their voices 
were sd loud that Gilbert heard them a. mile away at the 
cabin. The terminal notes seemed, quite normal. Saw two 
Least Sandpipers and one Winter Yellow-legs far up the 
Meadow^] 
About six o'clock this morning I found a pair of 
Rose-breasted Grosbeaks beginning their nest in the fork 
of a gray birch at the east end of Ball's Hill. They 
flitted about together, making almost incessantly a soft, 
low, exquisitely tender calling to one another. The female 
kept trying to break off dead twigs from birches. When, 
after many futile attempts, she got one, she fie?; with it 
to the fork. The male regularly preceded her and settling 
down in the fork received from her the twig and set it in 
place among the few others (less than half a dozen) which 
had been brought when my observations began. The female 
invariably gave up the twig ?/hen the male reached his bill 
towards her for it. I heard the male sing only a few times 
during the entire morning. The low soft }.ove call uttered 
by both sexes might be written tu-e. 
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