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frightened it so that it would not go in again but kept hopping along the shore looking wishfully at the water. Then it flew into some bushes and I followed it along for a short distance. There was another bird with which I think was one of the same species but I could not get a good look at it. The first was a young male. The underparts were white; With a reddish streak on the flanks; The head was greenish yellow streaked obscurily with dusky wings and tail black; two white patches

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on outer tail feathers and two white wingbars: The note it gave was an indefinite [[underlined]]tsit[[/underlined]] different from that of the Nashville Warbler. It kept in the bushes for a ways but kept working higher all all the time until it flew into the lower branches of an oak and I was unable to find it again.

Heard a Yellow-throated Vireo give a hollow trilling not entirely different from any other I had ever heard it give.

When we were going over to Kirkland we saw three or four Spotted Sandpipers. They flew for rather long distances for