Cardinal Gro»sb«ak. 



BIRCH BROWSINGS. 



The region of which I am about to speak lies in 

 'the southern part of the State of New York, and 

 cwmprises parts of three counties, — Ulster, Sullivan 

 tiid Delaware. It is drained by tributaries of both 

 the Hudson and Delaware, and, next to the Adiron- 

 dac section, contains more wild land than any ether 

 tract in the State. The mountains which traverse it, 

 and impart to it its severe northern climate, belong 

 properly to the Catskill range. On some maps of 

 the State they are called the Pine Mountains, though 

 with obvious local impropriety, as pine, so far as I 



