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his song, and then skulked away along a fence-row, scolding in 

 the usual manner of the Wrens. The bird in its attitudes 

 recalled the larger Carolina Wren, its song, however, was quite 

 different, distantly reminding one of the Song Sparrow's ditty 

 in the sudden rise at the beginning and the final trill, but 

 it is shorter, more emphatic, and of a different quality. Mr. 

 S. N. Rhoads had heard several of these birds on the top of 

 Tuscarora Mountain in June, 1894, when he crossed the county 

 on his bicycle. The Woodpeckers we encountered in a large 

 walnut-tree in a meadow where they were making a great dis- 

 turbance about some holes, one of which no doubt contained 

 their young. 



As we drove back to McConnellsburg we passed two birds 

 sitting on the top rail of the roadside fence which we recognized 

 at once as Prairie Horned Larks Otocoris a. praticola. We 

 stopped, and as if to make identification doubly sure, the birds 

 hopped down into the road and ran about close to the carriage 

 wheels, feeding and chasing each other. They seemed evidently 

 to be mated, and doubtless had a nest near by, for after some 

 fifteen minutes they whirled away over the field to the east and 

 disappeared. This is so far as I know the most southern 

 summer record of this bird east of the Alleghanies. 



The following is compiled from Mr. Baily's lists, which dur- 

 ing the four days contained a total of seventy-two species: 



I. Birds seen in the valley about McConnellsburg — 



Killdeer Plover, Crested Flycatcher, 



Bobwhite, Phoebe, 



Mourning Dove, Wood Pewee, 



Turkey Vulture, Prairie Horned Lark, 



Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Crow, 



Kingfisher, Cowbird, 



Red-headed Woodpecker, Red-winged Blackbird, 



Flicker, Meadow Lark, 



Night Hawk, Orchard Oriole, 



Chimney Swift, Baltimore Oriole, 



Hummingbird, Purple Grackle, 



Kingbird, Goldfinch, 



