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to see the long neck of a tukey gradually peep up out of
the rank growth.  Soon her entire body was seen, when she
walked sedately and gracefully away and in a few moments had
disappeared in the surrounding brush.  I walked up to where
she had appeared, and there found a crude nest, right on
the ground, slighty hollowed out, built as if of whatever
brush was found lying on the spot and hollowed out on acc't
of the weight of the bird.  In it were 8 eggs, fully three times
as large as the ordinry chicken egg and speckled
with brown spots.  I now soon reached Ilchester.  Having
come so often from the ravine to Ilchester, I thought I would
to-day resume the trip.  I climbed the steep hillside at the
bridge.  Reaching the summit I cam eto a broad path, this
I followed to the flat-topped rock overlooking the Patapsco.
When the path branched I took that one branch leading toward our
ravine.  It, however, led me to a small square field.  I crossed
the field hoping to find a path leading from it toward the ravine.
I found what appeared to be an overgown path, I followed
it for some distance when I found myself in an almost inpenetrable
thicket of briar young Judas trees, bramble and various shrubs.
        