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79.
Wed.
Today I ran into the
Brush Owls in fair
numbers seeing four in
all. They are what we
have called young Ani
and I believe all the birds
that give the mysterious
whistle in the grove which
we attribute to the Ani.
They flush only very close
and fly with difficulty
but have very large legs
and put and row rapidly
when once in the brush.
They appear certainly as
Brush Ani and fly like
a young bird or a bird
just flushing from the
brush. All I have flushed
them from our grove
clump near Burges, for
which they always make
in haste. The frequency is truly
Dad shot one of the
White Jays Today. It was
however in a dull plumage
very brown on the back.
The four yellow throated
eagles we found yesterday
made this morning hatched.
Dad ran out to a pair
of the ground Dow and