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were Buzzards and Robinp, but comparatively few birds all told. 

 A pair of Kinglets were tbe only birds other than Buzzards and 

 Fine Warblers we met on our four miles (bniugli tbe pines back 

 to Brown's ]\Iills. Tliis afternoon Whitebellied NuthatchcB 

 were the new birds in tbe Inn Avoods, where tbe Caroline Chick- 

 adees sang so freely they attained to something of the melody 

 of tbe Crested Tit. 



Saturdaj' morning we saw our first ducks on tbe pond, a pair 

 of Black Ducks, and once afterwards we got up a pair from one 

 of its backwaters. Birds were always scarce about tbe lake, not 

 even a Kingfisher making bis appearance there while we were by 

 until Tuesday, April 2d. This one and a pair that were seen the 

 next morning investigating a high dry bank by tbe roadside, far 

 from water, possibly with nesting intentions, were all we saw 

 on our trip. The other new bird of the day was a single Fox 

 Sparrow, in full song. Sundaj' brought no new bird, save the 

 Whitebellied Swallows and the Killdeer, and a few Cedar birds, 

 who curiously lit in the same tree with a bunch of Robins. 

 Walking toward Lewistown on Monday I saw a Cooper's Hawk. 

 Tuesday at sunset I came upon a Hermit Thrush in tbe deep 

 swamp by tbe Rancocas. Wednesday morning a drive to Pem- 

 berton added a Sparrow Hawk to tbe list. This completes the 

 list — thirty-one in all, tbe smallest I ever recorded from a week 

 of spring. 



What I learned ornithologically from the trip was something 

 of Pine Warblers. I bad met them before, now and again, but 

 their inconspicuousness and unappealing song had left little 

 impression upon me. Nor can I say now after a week, in which 

 I think during the day time I was hardly ever without their 

 song in my ears, that I am greatly taken with them. They 

 have now, however, an identity in my mind. They are cheer- 

 ful, hardy little fellows, stoics in a snowstorm and epicureans 

 in sunny weather. The pines were full of them all the time of 

 our visit, but they were plentiful also along roadsides through 

 farm lands. Had I left after a four days' stay I would have 

 associated them only with the pine woods, whose lazy tonic 

 quality their song re-echoes. At about every hundred yards in 

 the high pines about tbe lower end of the pond you would come 



