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and every now and then the "scatter call" of a Quail. Alto¬ 
gether the walk was a delightful as well as memorable one. 
On my way back I stopped at Edwin Lawrence’s place. 
I fougid its proprietor smoking a cigar in the garden just 
behindthe house. Twilight was falling as I stood talking 
with him. A Thrasher was singing gloriously in the pasture 
near at hand. Suddenly I heard the light, silvery whistle 
of wings and looking up saw two Wood Ducks flying at no great 
height directly overhead. Although the light was dim, I 
distinctly made out their white bellies and characteristic 
shape and manner of flight. They came from the westward 
(directly over an extensive tract of upland woods) and dis¬ 
appeared in the direction of Birch Island. I should have 
been scarce more surprised had a p£|a)r of Canada Geese flown 
over me. 
It was nearly dark when I reached the farm-house. 
Two Whippoorwills were singing, one to the westward, the other 
just below the orchard to the south-east and somewhere 
near Pulpit Rock. 
Hylas were peeping in fair numbers this evening. 
When at Lawrence* s I heard a Solitary Sandpiper 
cabling high overhead and earlier in the day a Winter 
Yellow-legs high over Pulpit Rock woods. 
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