BOSTON ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



A LIST OF BIRDS OBSERVED NEAR BRADFORD, 



PENN. 



By J(mies A. Tvel 



OH. 



Before beginning to give a list of the birds found in this 

 immediate vicinity it may be well to give a short descrip- 

 tion of the country. The principal stream is the Tunang- 

 wantj a ti-ibutary of the Alleghany River, which divides just 

 below the city into the east and west branches. The Erie 

 Raih^oad (Bradford Branch) follows the east branch of the 

 river for a considerable distance, but, as it is farther away 

 and more thickly settled, my collecting has been done 

 mostly along the western branch and one or two of its 

 tributaries. 



The west branch Hows for the most part through a heavily 

 AvooJed country. On the eastern side for several miles are 

 numerous well cleared tracts, which before the oil excite- 

 ment were farms. On the western, however, there ai^e but 

 few houses after leaving the city limits and these are mostly 

 farm houses. There is a ^' tram-road " — surveyed years 

 ago for a railroad — which follows the stream for seven or ^ 

 eight miles. The road is not much travelled and along its 

 sides between it and the "creek," as it is called, are numer- 

 ous small patches of woods, in which I have found a few 

 birds, though not as many as one would expect from the 

 appearance of the land. Flowing into the west branch from 

 the west side are four streams, whose general directions are 

 nearly parallel with each other but which are separated by 

 high hills. The most northerly of these is Bolivar Brook, 

 then Bennett Brook, next Wagoner's Run, and last Marilla 

 Run. I went once into Bolivar Brook but saw nothiim- 



