Newtonville, May 15th 1889 
I shall be pleased to see yo 
time, and I am usually at home. I shall be here all thi 
a 
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all next, excepting next Monday when IT yo to Wayland to look 
ul st u male 
a female Bittern. I was up day before yesterday and rot, 
ichin a hundred yards of where Bradford Torry heard his pumping. 
although I did not 
tbheroy in regard 
ing produced in any other way than by 7%! 
oes Ger 2 i Wi 
stated bird went out in the marshes and cut 
reed and 
played on that, T should have beleived it 
as quickly- 
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mi oR he a i a Wnen Par ¢ i ; \1} nT } duri ¥ 
never 
ech sh only thoroughly convinced 
conjecture, but also that his simile 
appropriate; the Bittern beiby pi 
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