The great length of their tails struck as 
peculiar. 
Pound a nest of Ampelis cedrorum that almost 
completely composed of sheeps wool. 
August 17, 1902 - Sunday. 
This morning after breakfast went down in the 
ields. The swallows were around as usual. To- 
a ay they were down near the river. 
Saw a song sparrow with a light yellowish 
^rown tail and another with scarcely any tail at 
In the edge of the corn field 1 scared up 6 
Jf A f grown hobwhites. They had been taking a 
u.st bath. A little farther I looked over a 
°£Ush and there were about a dozen young auail 
ess than a day old with their father. The male 
aw me immediately and trailed along the ground 
. Ve a shrill whistled note. The young ones 
distantly ran or rather crawled into the high 
erass. I caught three. They were as big as the 
irst joint of ny thumb and had very large heads, 
e y hid in little hollows near the roots of the 
srass and were very hard to find. When caught 
y gave a whistled note. They moved by a 
eries of sudden jumps for they could not stand 
u Pright. 
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. . August 29, 1502 - Friday . 
inJ'.t 3 ra °rning 1 heard a strange songand folic 
, it up saw a male Nashville warbler in Pock- 
b e l poplar * It was very restless and seemed tc 
the f hlng am0ng the limbs - It: wor ked up tc 
the °L and tben tipp e < i and tumbled down again t 
bottom branches. Occasionally it would sit 
