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hillside towards the eastward, giving us a fine view of his 
ashy-blue back. Only a few minutes later the Phoebe was . 
. back on the same perch again, One whole episode was moat 
impressive happening, as it did, at what night be called the 
. very threshold of the Ph,ebe*s home and during a rarely 
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^ beautiful and peaceful Say- afternoon* 
\ llbile passing through the opening between 9?>11* 8 
and Pavia’s Hills we sr.w (at 3 P, *!.} a female "51* ck and 
iVh’iie Creeper l nr lug bnjfk from a grope vine, -ifter she had 
obtained as ®.;ch as ehe could carry in her bill, she flew 
with It to the ground at the base of a.cluster of birches 
where, na doubt, ,she las begun n nest, 
?he Phoebe’s eot In the horse-shed at Dali*a Hill 
pf.Vw five egjr. to-day, but 'die bird has apparently not as yet 
begun sitting# 
Iv rly' this 'StextkO.n we found an iamature male 
Purple Finch in th* birches on Dlrch Island suid later heard 
'another arjong red cedars near the Darrett Spring, ^oth were 
singing rather freely and well, 1 have noted the specie* 
before this season but once — on 'hr oh 32, It is evidently 
fast disappearing from the ‘'•all’s Hill region, j 
t *.t evening we went to Peaver Da® he low* The wind 
bed lulled end there was o young moon high In the star-lit 
sky, niter the liitern ceased pumping a hail 
be,?r.aii her c ^qttcut-1a cry# •«. 3reen Heron flow about us# 
calling scow. Only a few Hylas and leopard Frogs were calling < 
When It had become nearly dark, two v/il son’s Snipe rose 
