"Tree not more than 3 years old. The road, still a broad cause-way, goes right on behind the trees and a quarter of a mile beyond there is an acreage of tiny shellies each about 6 ft x 6 ft, trailing, and about 20 all told stretched out in a line along the ridge. Two other layer shellies stand between them and the big house. I kept on for about 1/2 mile further; then turned back. The train curved to the west & then back to N again to avoid the head of a gulley. Coming back not a canary. First time I've ever heard its call. Imagine the bottom-most note of an organ lasting for a couple of seconds & spaced a few seconds apart. I could not imagine what could cause the sound. As the boy said, it was "all same flyin' machine". Then Oct 22 The tides seem all mixed up. Yesterday at 6 am. the water was still nearly high, but running out. This morning at the same time it is about half tide and still it is going out. Now it seems to have jumped away stead. Yesterday evening it was high somewhere around 7 o'clock. One of these new moon tides have been small so far____ Fri. Oct.23 Tides small & very irregular. To our surprise, a small tide reaches height just about normal and stayed high for about 3 hours. At 6 pm. it is on the way out once more. Have now 150 mammals of 17 species in this camp. Thursday weather this afternoon. Now a dry pleasant breeze blowing Pant went quickly along the west track this way, thought took 5 mammals, a gummy (shot while running along a root), a pelago the white billed form, (first seen in pond, but climbed to about 8 feet above pond; eyes show well); and a band-eel lacking a tail which has the foot characters and the big snout of that taken at Black River. It appears to be a Perocelis. It was just crossing the trail spied no attention to the light. Sat. Oct 24 Today a new pelago (#3059); also an eching-pun, the first mammal caught by our fence-traps. Late went out burning out bit trees & poking sticks into