Heard a note like whit pe yer several times. 
I saw the bird a number of times Tefore I could 
^sll what it was. It kept to the tops of the 
trees and flew with fluttering direct flight or 
else sailed at rather long intervals. The note 
was given;finally it lit in plain sight and I knew 
tt for a crested flycatcher. 
Cn the way home we saw a yellow-billed cuckoo 
°n a wire fence sunning itself. It did not seem 
alarmed but jerked its head quickly in many direc¬ 
tions and once in a while pumped its tail slowly, 
t finally in a tree with a rotary dove-like 
flight and disappeared.Generally a cuckoo is simply 
a ghostly voice floating from some thick leaved ‘ 
r® e an d it wa3 a new experience to view one about 
•50 feet off. 
Augu st 30, 1902 - Saturday. 
Tonight after supper I went down by the river to 
®t some traps. The few birds that 1 saw were very 
restless. A Nashville warbler chipped from the 
t0 P of a tree and sat on a twig where I had a good 
v ew of it. Last fall 1 saw only one of this 
species. This year they are very common. 
A waterthrush of the northern species flew up 
®ht of Duvalls cornfield and lit in a crabapple 
ree. it seemed very tame for a waterthrush and 
ust have been a young one. I saw it close by 
everal times afterward and once it was so close 
“hat I could see the stripes on its breast in 
he dusk. All of the resident birds had gone to 
ost but these migrants were restless. 
August 31, 1902 - Sunday . 
This morning I went over on the Island. Birds 
G^ l0 v. Ver ^ thick. I came suddenly on a young male 
sbeak and he flew a few feet in a startled 
/7 nner * His breast was rosy but the black of his 
Plumage v.as spotted with brown. 
A f' lh ? Pasture had been cropped close by sheep. 
ne amil -y party of wood pewees occuppied one spot 
f * the bi & £rove. It was rather windy and they 
d near the ground. I noticed that they nearly 
