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pretty bird interested us very much.  It was of a brilliant carmine
red color with black wings and had a peculiar twittering
note, which was uttered always several times in succession. It
was very active continually on the move and we only once got a good view of it through
the <s>spy-</s> glass.  It was about 5 P.M. when we started for the ravine.[Between O. G. & the ravine we saw a pretty dark blue bird]
Before entering the ravine we stopped to examine the culvert
at this place under the railroad tracks.  We found it very cool, almost too cool
to stay in it any great length of time.  The walls were very wet
from water trickling through the roof and also from the condensing
of moisture.  On our way through the ravine we stopped to examine
the two Cypripedium pubescens plants marked with flowers.
Only one, the one nearest the culvert, was found fruited.  Our new
method of marking seems to be an excellent one.  When near the pumphouse[note at top of page: A little fire-fly had been caught in a spider's web and while its life's blood was
being sucked out, the little victim kept continually illuminating its captor in his bloody work.]  we heard our first Whip-poor-Will.  We reached the cars about
8. P.M.

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July 23, 1901.  (Article printed in Plant World)  An afternoon trip to Mt. Winans. Mr. W. & I met at the
car terminus at 4.30 P.M.  We first went to the old mill, hoping to
find Menispermum Canadens, but failed to do so.  The views here along
the falls and along the race are charming, but, alas! the odors are
so awfully disagreeable that it becomes a place of disgust.  Walking
        