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* Probably Chewinks, or Towhee Bunting.
Nearly always nests on the ground in the
woods usually in a glade.

came to a run.  Knowing that this must surely run into Marley
Br. we concluded to follow it.  All along its banks the magnolia
was to be found, although not abundantly.  We managed, here
and there, to get a nice bud.  The little stream had in many
places cut quite a deep although narrow gorge(?), the sides of
which were rather steep.  The banks above these steep sides were clothed
with an almost impenetrable thicket, consisting mainly of cat-brier.

While getting a few magnolia buds we disturbed a cat-bird; we soon
found her nest, in which were four pretty eggs.  We had gone along
the bank quite a distance, and the thicket had gradually become
worse and worse.  We at last came to a place where we found
we could go no further so tightly were we held by the brier.

Small side streams with similar steep banks now, too, <s>were</s> had
<s>passed</s> to be crossed.  We, therefore, were obliged to give up following
the stream and force our way through the brier to the road.
This we finally accomplished.  Before reaching the road we passed
<s>a</s>several birds,* almost the size of our robin, they were almost black on the
back and of an orange red color on the breast.  They seemed 
to be greatly excited on our approach and we thought a nest
was near, but on going to a tree, in which we thought it was, we 

        