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their song as [[underline]][[hrila?]]he la la la[[/underline]] with a queer steely sound in the notes. They called [[underline]]whink[[/underline]] and [[underline]]hril [[/underline]].

May 6, Wednesday.

Tonight after school I went up by the gravel pit. Saw a strange Flycatcher that I did not know. It was the Acadian Flycatcher. The upper parts were greenish; under parts white; sides a little darker; eye-ring and two wing bars white. It jerked its tail quickly and nervously in an entirely different manner from the Phoebe. It chose rather low perches. And sat still for quite long periods between sallies after insects. Later I saw another in [[Tuttle's?]] Orchard. It sat in

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the top of an apple-tree jerking its tail and calling [[underline]]whit, whit [[/underline]].

Heard the [[Quail?]] whistling [[underline]]Bob-white[[/underline]] for the first time this spring. The males were spread out through the fields but I saw a flock of about eight females in a Raspberry bushes. One male was feeding in a plowed field.

Went over by a little Pond. Sparrows, White-throats, Song and English were in the brush piles but were hard to flush.

On a little farther I saw the reason for it. A small hawk flew up and and lit a short ways off. It was the Sharp-shinned Hawk. Back slate color; chin white. tail darker than back nearly square and banded with black;