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36 Oct. Oct. 1, Sunday. Went down across the river through [[Ristan's?]] pasture into [[Vills?]]. Here I came to 2 small ravines close together. As I was in the second one a flicker flew up and uttered his loud [[underlined]] ke-aw [[/underlined]], bobbing and looking at me curiously. Then he flew across the river to a post and after a few seconds flew to the ground. When it hopped its manner was exactly like that of a robin. He had a [[end page]] [[start page]] 37 queer habit of stretching his head up and looking around for insects. It would hop after insects quite fast. When digging - which he did just as though he was drilling a hole in a tree - he used his tail to brace himself with. When digging he stopped to swallow now and then. Once in a while he would bow at me jerkily. He - I say he for he had a scarlet patch both on head and throat - [[?]] quite at home on the