There was such an ■t^roar that I felt at one time as if I 
must stop my ear®. But before iarlcnesB fell, the ©raoklee 
as well as the Rusty Blackbirds and Cow-birds had become 
wholly silent, 
Just as the sun was setting, a Great Horned Owl 
beg?in hooting near at hand apparently in the woods on 
Holden*8 Hill, A Bittern passed high overhead and then 
descended on a lo::g incline to the middle of the Great 
Meadow, A perfect w^axm of Titlarks (fully 75) circled 
about, looking for a place to alight. As twilight gathered 
■ Ss\cuu'2 
Carolina Ralls began nailing and plashing among the reeds 
all around the lagoon, I heard at least 5 different birds 
and probably twice that ntuaber. They made all sorts of 
interesting sounds, the commonest a quo or ken, very variaH 
in tone, at times exceedingly frog-like In quality, yet hot 
really like the note of any of our Rew Sngland frogs. They 
also gave the whinney frequently and occasionally the 
but the latter note lacked the sweet, plaintive 
quality It has In spring and was, Indeed, rather h'xsh and 
displeasing. 
Raymond Emerson tells m that about ten days ago 
he saw two flocks of Black Di-oks and a flock of fully 50 
very small ducks which he took to be Teal and \tiloh were 
flying high over Flint*s Bridge, 
