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* A vireo, or greenlet.

learned the cause of their excitement.  On the ground was a young
bird still unable to fly.  It was easily caught, but after holding it
just a moment it was again put on the ground and we hastened
away so as not to cause the birds more excitement than necessary.
Whether it fell from the nest or had only gotten out of one near the
ground we failed to learn.  We reached the road near the old
church and soon afterwards we were at R's where we got the
use of Mr. O's boat.  It was 12 o'clock when we left R's and
rowed up the branch to the water-lilies, only two of which were
found in flower.  We cruised about in the different little inlets
and went up the main stream a short distance.  On our way back
we found a nice landing-place, where we went ashore and ate
our dinner.  After dinner we collected a nice bunch of Kalmia
and a few more Magnolia buds.  While on this trip we disturbed
another bird on its nest.  In the nest were two eggs, white
with black specks on the larger end.  The nest was quite deep
and hung between two branches.  The bird* was dark brown in color
about as large as our English sparrow.  After collecting a large
bunch of Kalmia we rowed back to R. then walked back
to G. on the way collecting some daisies.  We reached G. about
        