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ican birds, and one which set the standard for the hundreds 

 that have followed. 



Arrived at Mercersburg, we made the last stage of our journey 

 by wagon over the Tuscarora Mountain, which marks the east- 

 ern boundary of Fulton county, and down the other side into 

 another valley much like the one we had left to McConnells- 

 burg, the county-seat, where we made our headquarters. The 

 Tuscarora Mountain is a steep, narrow, outlying ridge of the 

 Appalachians, nearly flat on top, and well wooded with decidious 

 trees and bushes. Red-eyed Vireos, Ovenbirds, Chewinks, 

 Wood Pewees, and other typical woodland birds, were heard 

 continually, and the clear song of the Hooded Warbler accom- 

 panied us quite to the summit. Here, also, we later found 

 some feathers of the Wild Turkey and spots where the noble 

 birds had evidently been scratching about among the leaves. 

 This is a well-known Turkey country and not a few are yearly 

 brought in by the gunners.* Rattlesnakes are also of frequent 

 occurrence, and several recently killed were to be seen along the 

 roadside. And on the top of this same mountain we had one 

 of those tantalizing and yet instructive experiences that now 

 and then fall to the lot of the bird-student. A new note came 

 to us from the tree-tops, something different from anything with 

 which we were familiar. A tiresome search failed to obtain a 

 good view of the songster, and the gun was finally brought into 

 play, when, lo, we had before us a Red-eyed Vireo! 



The valley in which nestles the village of McConnellsburg we 

 found to be to a great extent Carolinian, as evidenced by the 

 occurrence of such birds as the Tufted Titmouse and Cardinal 

 Grosbeak, but on the ridges to the west, known as Scrub and 

 Meadow Ground Mountain, we found ti'aces of the Alleghanian 

 fauna, in the presence of Chestnut-sided and Blackburnian 

 Warblers, while a bog on the latter elevation sheltered a few 



*Mr. S. N. Rhoads flushed a Turkey hen with a brood of young when cross- 

 ing the ridge of mountains bordering the western side of Fulton Co., in June, 

 1894. Cf. Auk, 1899, p. 310, where date and range are wrongly given. 



Mr. E. A. Preble, in June, 1893, found a nest with fourteen eggs in Somerset 

 Co., Pa., some miles farther west. Cf. Judd, Bull. 24, Biol. Survey U. S. Dept. 

 Agr. 



