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18 Mulleins. A Downy Woodpecker was hammering grubs out of a big stalk. This will a good place for winter birds. Saw a flock of about 25 Purple Finches. They seem to like the dead tops of trees to perch in. Sunday morning I will come down and watch I cannot this morning as the boys wish to move around. The great length of their tails struck as peculiar. Found a nest of ampelis cedrorum that almost completely composed of sheepswool. [[end page]] [[start page]] 19 August 17, Sunday. This morning after breakfast went down in the fields. The swallows were around as usual. Today they were down near the river. Saw a Song Sparrow with a light yellowish brown tail and another with scarcely any tail at all. In the edge of the corn field I scared up 6 half grown Bobwhites. They had been taking a dust bath. A little farther I looked over a bush and there were about a dozen young Quail less than a