December 7, 1901. 
Near 11. N. Bridge - 9': 45 a.m. 
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Art Kudy, Jim Seeley and went up on the 
railroad track. Scared up a flock of 14 
bobwhites. There were more males than 
females. They were picking up gravel to 
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aid their digestions. They were very 
tame and lit a little farther on and fed 
a little. Then as we approached they 
ran a little ahead of us behind the long 
grass. They gave the alarm note only 
once. 
December 7, 1901. 
Near K. B. Bridge - 10:00 a. m. 
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Art Budy, Jim Seeley and I saw a few brown 
creepers. '.,e were attracted by the notes 
like tsee tsep and a trilled tse-e-eet. 
song 
I watched them there were 4 of them. Two 
were in one tree. Suddenly one chased the 
other away giving at the same time a thin 
wiry, trilled song like tseep e tseep, 
tseepe tseep e entirely unlike that of a 
chipping sparrow. It was the first time 
I heard the song. I heard it 4 times. 
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Once one gave it while in the air flying 
from one tree to another. They seemed to 
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go up the trunks like mice. They were 
hard to see against the bark. They did 
not pick like the woodpeckers except once 
or twice. One crawled easily along a 
limb slanting like this on the under 
side. Some slanted as much as this'v^ 
The flight was bounding or tipping and 
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erratic. They would commence lower down 
on one tree than they left off in another. 
They took the trunk and larger limbs. 
Ofce^ chased the other around cuite a little 
