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looking from some weed stalk or bramble, their 
rose-r red bills looking very pretty with the 
two white wing bars. I heard one give an indrawn 
note like soo soo. I saw this one eating 
pigeon grass. I also saw a young one farther on 
with the large mouth and short tail which tell 
a young bird anywhere. It could fly quite well 
and was very tame. I saw about 8 in all. 
(Fall plumage). I went on up the hill and as I 
neared another berry patch at the top I started 
a flock of white crowned sparrows. Crown striped 
with black and white; the white stripes do not 
extend to the bill; back streaked with black and 
brown; throat whitish; underparts whitish, a 
plump bird about the size of an English sparrow. 
It is a ground bird, note a faint tseep . Then 
I went home. 
October 1, 1899 - Sunday . 
Went down across the river through Kistatl's 
pasture into Volls. Here I came to 2 small 
ravines close together. As I was in the second 
one a flicker flew up and uttered his loud ke-aU , 
' bobbing and looking at me curiously. Then he flew 
across the river to a post and after a few 
seconds flew to the ground. When it hopped its 
manner was exactly like that of a robin. He had a 
queer habit of stretching his head up and looking 
around for insects. It would hop after insects 
quite fast. When digging - which he did just as 
though he was drilling a hole in a tree - he used 
his tail to brace himself with. When digging he 
stopped to swallow now and then. Once in a while 
he would bow at me jerkily. He - I say he for he 
had a scarlet patch both on head and throat -was 
quite at home on the ground, When he got behind 
a log he would give a dig and then look up to see 
what he was doing. Hearing a hairy woodpecker 
1 left the flicker to see it. Its underparts 
were white; strip on the middle of its back 
