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again, almost continually down hill, we enter the village of Bay 

 St. Paul in the middle of its beiutiful valley. This proved the 

 most interesting day of the whole trip from an ornithological 

 point of view, 52 species being observed. As soon as the forest 

 was reached PineSiskins and Kinglets became common, and a wild 

 and varied canary-like song was, after much trouble, traced to the 

 White-winged Crossbill which was found to be not uncommon 

 throughout all that region, though difficult to identify on account 

 of its preference for the highest perch available. A few warblers 

 were singing, and of these the Black-throated Green, Magnolia, 

 Blackburnian, Mourning, Nashville, Canadian and Black-throated 

 Blue were the most prominent, while the rest of the warblers 

 seemed to have already formed into mixed flocks, amongst 

 which were found the Bay-breasted and Myrtle Warblers. A 

 little grou]) of Yellow-bellied Flycatchers answered readily to an 

 imitation of their simple call-note (not unlike the Wood Pewee's) ; 

 at one place a Blue-headed Vireo displayed great anxiety when 

 the chirp of a young bird was imitated, and at a couple of" others 

 Hudsonian Chickadees were found and showed themselves to be 

 the same little bus)'-bodies as their commoner cousins. This dis- 

 trict would doubtless repay a long study, as the Canada Grouse, 

 Canada Jay, Blackpoll warbler, the Three-toed Woodpeckers, 

 and perhaps the American Crossbill might reasonably be ex- 

 pected to breed here, and there is always in addition the chance 

 of some great rarity that every naturalist has one eye open for ; 

 and if the birds are so northern as this, no doubt the other 

 branches of natural history would yield equally interesting 

 results to collectors. The writer was on the lookout for the 

 Gray-cheeked thrush also, but the only thrushes found were the 

 Olive-backed, the Hermit and the Veery, the first-named being 

 twice as common as both the others put together, and though 

 every thrush that was convenient was coaxed into good view 

 none were seen that had any trace of gray in the cheeks. 



The rest of this short trip included walking as far as Murray 

 Bay, but no furthur bird records of value were obtained. King- 

 lets, White-winged Crossbills and Pine Siskins were to be heard 

 and seen about the hotel there quite often and we were treated 

 regularly to a concert by the Olive-backed Thrushes, but the 

 time of song was nearly over, and when the visit came to an end 

 the deep silence of midsummer held the woods all day, broken 

 only by the faint chirp of .some warbler wandering through the 

 tree-tops, or at night by the hoarse bark of the Night Heron 

 passing overhead to his feeding grounds uncovered by the falling 

 tide. ^. .- • ^. ': -.^ 



