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nearly so loud with song as were June's. The Whip-poor-wills 

 were much quieter, and after the middle of the month they 

 were but infrequently heard. After the middle of August I 

 heard no "Whip-poor-will" until there came a springlike 

 night in early September, a night of south wind and soft rain, 

 and then again the Whip-poor-wills called and an Ovenbird 

 sang its "teacher" song and its flight-song as if it were May. 

 The Great-crested Flycatchers disappeared to a bird with June, 

 and I saw none afterwards the whole summer. The Chebecs 

 were abundant and noisy after July 1, though less and less 

 noisy as the month wore on, until about the fifteenth they dis- 

 appeared as the Great-crested Flycatcher had disapj^eared two 

 weeks before. However, I saw a Chebec and heard him on 

 August 2, and two days later a pair with three j'oung came 

 about our shack. These young were barelj' able to fly, so they 

 must have come only a little distance from the nest. I sup- 

 pose some accident had befallen a previous nesting, and the old 

 birds had begun over again late in the season. But if, as I 

 think, they had nested somewhere nearby they must have been 

 very quiet, which is anj'thing but after their custom. The 

 Pewees and Wood Pewees and Kingbirds were still about when 

 we left, fewer Kingbirds than Pewees and Wood Pewees, though 

 for that matter there were fewer all season. 



Seventy-three species identified is the total of my list, a list 

 that might have been added to considerably by one who knows 

 more birds than I, and who had more time to give to observa- 

 tion. My chief disappointment was in finding so few Hermit 

 Thrushes and so few Veeries. I found that the Veeries went 

 higher in this immediate neighborhood than the Hermit 

 Thrushes. Both species were much scarcer than they are in 

 the southern Berkshires (Mt. Washington town), a county 

 whose avifauna is much like this of the northern Poconos, but, 

 as you would expect, a little more northern, though scarcely 

 more northern than that of the Tobyhanna district just above 

 Buck Hill. These upper branches of Broadhead's Creek rise in 

 a country that sixty years ago was Canadian in its fauna, and 

 flowing from two to six miles, reach Barrett township, a 

 country then Alleghanian in its fauna, but now that the original 



