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few clearings outside of the Delaware Valley, while many of the 

 roads are hardly more than back trails. 



The forests are made up of mixed pitch-pine, white-pine, oak 

 and other hard-woods — the pitch-pine being especially common 

 — with a dense undergrowth of huckleberry and scrub oaks 

 (Quercus nana and Q. prinoides) wherever the woods have in 

 past years been opened up by the axe or by forest fires. In 

 some sections of considerable extent the scrub oaks grow so 

 densely as to make any progress through them not only ex- 

 tremely difficult, but often practically impossible. Hemlock 

 is not very common, bvit is found along the sides of many of the 

 ravines, often accompanied by a dense growth of wild rhodo- 

 dendron. 



Five and seven miles to the west of Milford are two ponds 

 known respectively as Sawkill Pond, the source of the stream of 

 that name, and Big Brink, which are especially interesting be- 

 cause of the presence, in their immediate vicinity, of two sphag- 

 num swamps containing a more or less dense growth of larch 

 and black spruce. Another but much smaller spruce swamp, 

 known as Gregory Swamp, lies about four and one-half miles to 

 the northwest of Milford. 



The most interesting fact with respect to the birds found as 

 summer residents, was the intermingling of such northern 

 species as the Blue-headed Vireo and the Magnolia, Black- 

 burnian. Black-throated Blue, Mourning and Canadian War- 

 blers, with rejaresentatives of a more southern fauna, such as the 

 Orchard Oriole and the Worm-eating and Hooded Warblers. 



The following list is made up of only those birds which I saw 

 or secured myself, and of whose identification there can be no 

 question. I did not get to Milford till the breeding season was 

 nearly over, and several of the species noted were not met with 

 till after the middle or end of July ; but with the exception of 

 the Myrtle, Bay-breasted, Black-poll and Wilson's Warblers 

 and Olive-sided Fly-catcher, and possibly the Purple Finch and 

 Bobolink, they are all undoubtedly birds that passed the breed- 

 ing season in that region. 



Perhaps the most noteworthy record in the list is the early 

 date (August 20th) for the arrival of the Myrtle Warbler. To 



