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[[preprinted]] 14 [[/preprinted]] 335 Wilsonia canadensis 336 Trochilus colubris #337 Seiurus motacilla (given to A.B.Stout.) Redstart Canadian Warbler Chicadee feeling of "fall" in air. Goldfinch [[end page]] [[start page]] [[preprinted]] 15 [[/preprinted]] black. rest of bill flesh color. gape yellow. larsus flesh-color. line on front pale purple. Length 7 5/8 wing 4 9/16 tail 2 3/4 [[male symbol]] ad. stomach contents. insects 335. Wilsonia canadensis, A.Wetmore. Half Moon Woods, North Freedom, Wis. iris brown. maxilla & tip of mandible dusky. rest of bill horn. tarsus flesh color. Length 5 wing 2 1/2 tail 2 [[male symbol]] im. stomach contents. insects & a measuring worm. 336 Trochilus colubris, A. Wetmore, Half Moon Woods, North Freedom Wis, iris drab. bill black. tarsus black. Length 3 1/4 wing 1 3/4 tail 15/16 [[strikethrough]] st [[/strikethrough]] [[male symbol]] im. stomach contents. insects. 337. Seiurus motacilla. A. Wetmore, Half Moon, North Freedom, Wis, iris brown. maxilla dark brown. mandible horn brown tarsus flesh color. Length 5 5/8 wing 3 3/16 tail 1 13/16 [[female symbol]] im. stomach contents insects. [[penciled]] given to A.B. Stout.[[/penciled]] This morning after breakfast I went out in the Half Moon Woods. Redstarts were thick as usual. The males sang almost all the while. Their songs were very different. There were a few other warblers in the flocks this time. I shot one Canadian and saw a few others but did not recognise them. The young Chicadees kept up their soft insistent notes continually. In the woods the hurried notes and restless movements of these birds gave me a sense of their own unrest caused by instinct and a feeling of coming winter. As soon I reached the open however the notes of the goldfinches
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