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shores some Veeries and Pewees, and often in the burnt woods 

 above I heard the Chickadees, who, by the by, sang their 

 "phoebe" song the whole three months of my stay in Barrett 

 township; and here, too, was seen an occasional Crow and Blue- 

 jay. I was surprised by the comparative rareness of these 

 birds and I was disappointed in not seeing a raven all summer 

 long. The nearest I got to a record was the statement that 

 there had been caught up in Newfoundland in Pike County 

 seven years before in the winter ' ' a big crow with heavy feathers 

 on his neck that some said was a raven." This bird was kept 

 in captivity a long while in " a big chicken- wire cage." It was 

 not known what had become of him, but ' ' he was not about 

 any more." 



In Gravel's Swamp the White-bellied Swallow nested, too, 

 in the old Woodpeckers' holes. They stayed in the neighbor- 

 hood later than either of the other Swallows, and as late as Sep- 

 tember 6 I saw six of them hawking about high over the tannery 

 dams at Mountain Home. Here, too, in Gravel's Swamp were 

 Redwings, and at Price's Pond a mile away, but there were few 

 in all. Here, too, came Great Blue Herons to fish, but they 

 nested elsewhere, and here, too, I saw one of the only two 

 Green Herons I came upon all summer. In a grassy swamp a 

 half mile below Gravel's Swamp I sometimes saw the Redwings, 

 and in the fields nearby a pair of Meadowlarks. There were 

 only three places in Barrett township in which I saw Meadow- 

 larks, and in only one of these places did I ever see more than 

 two. There were no Crackles here, but at Stroudsburg, seven- 

 teen miles southeastward, at a lower altitude, and at Toby- 

 hanna, eleven miles westward, at a higher altitude, I saw them. 

 The Cowbirds were the only orioles at all plenty near Buck Hill. 



The huckleberry barrens were very interesting to me. I vis- 

 ited them frequently from the beginning of my stay, flushing 

 Grouse * from those parts of them that had a chance to grow up 

 more than knee-high, and always finding on them Chewinks 

 and Redeyes and Bluebirds and Flickers and Robins — the last 



* Ruffed Grouse, Bonasa umbellua. 



These same biirrens were one of the last resorts of the Heath Hen, Ti/mpan- 

 uclius cupido, which was last seen here about 1869. — Kn. 



