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June 29, Sunday.

Went out this morning to Four Mile Run and spent the day on a long wooded hill back of Luna
Park.  Toward the west found an old abandoned farm with an old orchard.  Was hot
but with a cool breeze.  no water here except in a spring near Luna Park.

Birds were fairly common up here the Red-eyed Vireo of course being the most abundant
species. The males were singing all about and I collected one.  There were several nesting pairs above where [[overwritten]] I  [/overwritten]] we ate lunch but none were taken.

Heard a few Scarlet Tanagers singing and shot one male from the top of a tree. A very deep plumaged bird. One that I took the first of June
near Difficult Run had a few red feathers in the wing counts.

Carolina Chickadees were common and were travelling in small family parties.

Also saw one party of Tufted Titmice.

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Saw a Kingbird with what was a apparently a large beetle which he beat on a limb several times before managing to swallow it.

One brood of young Field Sparrows in juvenal plumage were seen.

Took a White-eyed Vireo from a clump of bushes
where it was scolding me vigorously.  It was a female in rather worn plumage.

Took two box turtles Terrapene carolinus that I thought were different species but it turned out that they merely showed the extremes of individual variation.  One was the ordinary brownish colored one with prominent yellow
markings and greyish olive eyes with irregular pupils. While the other a female - had the entire ground color blackish shaded with yellow on plastron. Carapace profusely spotted with
a dull Massicot yellow.  The Kul, which showed plainly marked longitudinally with this yellow
with roundish spots on the plates