DELAWARE VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. \) 



tract in which the trees are rather far apart and interspersed 

 here and there with great oaks. Underneath and about them 

 is ahnost impenetrable rhododendron brush, which not infre- 

 <]uently reaches a height of fifteen feet. These hemlocks and 

 the burnt-over woods just above them are the hunting-grounds 

 of the Warblers. The Chestnut-sided Warbler, in my experience 

 here, is a bird of scrub woods near open spaces in the lowlands; 

 the Maryland Yellowthroat I found in his usual swamps, but 

 also high on the huckleberry barrens; the Yellow Warbler was 

 found in open fields in the lowlands and the Black-throated 

 Blue Warbler I came upon on the high, dry slopes of Spruce 

 ^fountain, as well as here in the hemlocks, finding the bird in 

 both places until the time I came home; the Black-and- White 

 Creeper, too, I found in all sorts of cover, and from the middle 

 of July on they were much in evidence in the dry woods on the 

 mountain-tops. I saw two of these birds in far separated parts 

 of the Canadensis Valley, with each a young Cowbird. To the 

 hemlocks and rhododendrons along the streams stuck pretty 

 constantly the Parulas, the Magnolias, the Blackburnians, and 

 the Black-throated Greens, and several others I could not 

 identify. A pair of Chats that I came across as I was listening 

 to a Veery singing — an overlapping of faunas that was very in- 

 teresting to me — were as you would expect in a thicket where 

 field and wood met; the only Hooded Warblers that I saw were 

 in low second growth along the upper waters of the Buck Hill; 

 the Canadian Warbler I found, as I had found him in the 

 Bcrkshires, in high, dry woods, but just over the gorge through 

 which the Buck Hill flows; the Nashvilles, which I did not see 

 until August 12, evidently migrants, were about our shack. 



The Water Thrushes were always along the streams. It was 

 very interesting to find both species along the Buck Hill, and 

 in the breeding season. Later in the summer the northern 

 Water Thrushes seemed more plentiful than the Louisianas. I 

 got to know the smaller bird's appearance and ways of hunting, 

 as well as I knew the ways and appearance of his southern 

 cousins, for the northern birds were the tamer, often coming 

 within a few feet of me as I sat by the sti'eam and waited for 

 them to come down past me. But I never found their nest as 



