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below the falls for their roar to be pleasantly dulled, the Water 

 Thrush sang. Down here in the hemlocks it was darker than 

 twilight, although it was not quite eight o'clock. Perhaps the 

 bluff acted as a sounding-board, perhaps the soft thunder of the 

 falls made a vibration of the air that added intensity to the 

 song. Whatever the cause it rose above the rhododendrons 

 with unwonted volume, still far from a jjowerful song, but bo 

 sweet and appealing that I could not but listen though a glor- 

 ious-voiced Wood Thrush was singing not far away. 



Two birds I saw but once during the summer were near the 

 Water Thrushes' nest. In one of the hemlocks just above it I 

 watched, on July 16, three Crossbills, which after clambering 

 about on the topmost boughs for about a quarter of an hour 

 flew off towards the Tobyhanna barrens; and a little further up 

 stream, where a field comes down to the creek, I came upon, 

 earlier in July, a AVhite-eyed Vireo, a bird strangely out of 

 place in the rhododendrons. When we arrived at Buck Hill 

 Pewees were nesting along the creek, probably for the second 

 time. I could not help wondering if these were not the same 

 birds that had raised broods earlier underneath the porch roof of 

 the cottages of the settlement or under the cottages themselves. 

 There were none on the mountain-top in the middle of June 

 and I saw none there later. They could hardly have been 

 driven away by the cottagers, for not half of them were there at 

 that time and few at all had come before June 1. One of these 

 late stream-side nests was almost reached by the spray of the 

 falls in its situation under an overhanging cliff; another in a 

 damp spot the sun never reached on the cliffs above the swim- 

 ming hole, very different locations from the dry sites about the 

 cottages but probably just as comfortable in this warmer season. 

 In the former nest the brood was successfully hatched and 

 launched into the world. The fortunes of the second nest I 

 neglected to follow. 



Around this swimming-hole there were Veeries two years ago 

 but now they have been driven further up-stream where they 

 sang on past July 20 and one even until the twenty-third. Now 

 the Wood Thrushes were the thrushes about Glen Mere and 

 glorious- voiced thrushes they were, too. They sang on into the 



