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was seized and carried off. I only found one 
bunch of feathers so the dead jay must have 
been carried away. 
Saw a new warbler once. It had a white breast, 
sides streaked with black and black head. It was 
bear the ground but flew up into a tree when I 
a Pproached. It had an undulating flight. (Black¬ 
burnian warbler). 
Saw some chicadees. Got some scarlet tanagers 
breast feathers, and a small feather from the 
ruff of a ruffed grouse out of a chipmunks nest. 
Above John Patterson's I saw several brown 
creepers. They have notes like tsip tsip tseep. 
There were about 25 juncos feeding on some rag¬ 
weed in an apple orchard. 
This afternoon I went over across the river. 
was quite cold. 50° Fahr. Saw no birds until 
I got to the end of ravines. There 1 saw 3 young 
quail in a cornfield. They :> flew a few feet and 
lit. I tried to get to whdre I could watch them 
“Ut in doing so ran into the main flock. There 
toust have been 20 of them. Followed them up. Some 
°f them were not fully grown. Their wings made 
bo noise. They went- across the river. Saw some 
Obncos and myrtle warblers. The young juncos were 
lighter. They were quite tame. They were eating. 
A woodpecker flew by me with a low cull cuh . I 
bought it was a flicker. It looked rather small 
a bd as it lit near by I looked at it through the 
Slass. It was a red-bellied woodpecker. The first 
had ever seen. It was a fine male. It hopped 
0 the top of the tree and then flew off and I 
could not find it. 
Saw cedar waxwings and robins eating sumac 
er bies. They were wild. 
Saw a number of myrtle warblers hunting in a 
^eedy field. On n\y way home 1 saw a phoebe. 
flew anxiously from one place to another call- 
Xn §. tsip. 
