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thick dusk, until eight o'clock, but higher up tlie mountain, 

 although there the light lingers later, thej' generally cease their 

 song a half-hour earlier. These higher, dryer woods were in- 

 habited chiefly by Tanagers, of which there are more at Buck 

 Hill than I have seen elsewhere, Vireos, and the omnipresent 

 Ovenbird and Whip-poor-will. Here too, were a few Flickers 

 and Hairy Woodpeckers. I saw no Downy Woodpeckers until 

 September 13 and then only one, evidently a migrant. Two 

 years before I had seen many Red-breasted Nuthatches here- 

 abouts in their September migration but last September I saw 

 none. 



The Kingfishers sometimes came up-stream from the open 

 country but they were oftener found where meadows run down 

 to the stream. Everywhere, along the streams, along the roads, 

 about the houses, in the deep woods, were Humming-birds — 

 they were among the commonest birds of the locality. 



Beyond the Buck Hill, between it and the Middle Branch 

 was farming country — bottoms where you found the Yellow 

 Warbler and Catbirds ; orchards busy with Cedarbirds and 

 Kingbirds and Wrens and Bluebirds and Baltimore Orioles, and 

 barns swallow-haunted, with Barn Swallows within and Eave 

 Swallows without. The Eave Swallows had several large colo- 

 nies both here in the valleys and high up the hills, but you 

 found them on every third barn in the lowlands and only on 

 every fifth barn in the uplands. One lowland barn boasted 

 fifty-one nests, forty-four on the southern side and seven on the 

 northern. There were j'oung in some nests on June 16 and two 

 months later I still found a few young not yet flown. On 

 August 17 there were hundreds of them on the telegraph wires 

 and ridge-poles. After August 20 I saw none. Every barn and 

 wagon-shed in the country seemed to have its pair or two of 

 Barn Swallows and I think there must have been as many of 

 them all told as of the Eave Swallows, although of course, you 

 never saw them in any one place in such numbers. 



In bush-lined fields in the valleys were Field Sparrows and 

 Indigo Buntings and Grasshopper Sparrows, but these birds like 

 the Robins and Redeyes and Cowbirds could not be said to be 

 more numerous in one kind of country than another. With the 



