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but saw nothing.
Heard a note like [[underlined]] whit pe yer [[/underlined]] several times. I saw the bird a number of times before I could tell what it was It kept to the tops of the trees and flew with fluttering direct flight or else sailed at rather long intervals the note was given. Finally it lit in plain sight and I knew it for a crested flycatcher.
On the way home we saw a yellow-billed Cuckoo on a wire fence sunning itself. It did not seemed alarmed but jerked its head quickly in many directions and

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once in a while pumped its tail slowly. It finally in a tree with a rotary dove-like flight and disappeared. Generally a Cuckoo is simply a ghostly voice floating from some thick leaved tree and it was a new experience to view one about 30 feet off.

August 30, Saturday.
Tonight after supper I went down by the river to set some traps. The few birds that I saw were very restless. A Nashville Warbler chipped from the top of a tree and sat on a twig where I had