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ground color is pearl, tliree of them having obscure lilac mark- 

 ings wreathed about the greater end, with a few bolder spots of 

 reddish-brown, the fourth egg being thickly spotted with the 

 brown shade evenly over the entire surface, similar to the eggs 

 of the White-breasted Nuthatch. All of the eggs are quite 

 pointed. 



In concluding these notes it would perhaps be of interest to 

 speak of the general character of the bird life as we met with it 

 in Warren county. 



The country is such as would naturally attract a great variety 

 of birds. The valley of the Allegheny, at an elevation above 

 sea level of 1100 feet here, has large tracts of meadow lands that 

 furnish a congenial home for Bobolinks, Prairie Horned Larks, 

 Savannah Sparrows, Meadow Larks and other field-loving birds, 

 while the damp, dark hemlock and pine forests in the mountains 

 still found in this county in large and well-preserved tracti< fur- 

 nish a congenial home for the Winter Wren, Olive-sided, Hermit 

 and Wilson's Thrushes and Solitary Vireos, while Black-throated 

 Blue, Black-throated Green, Parula Pine and Blackburnian 

 Warblers were in evidence on every excursion we took into these 

 woods. Occasionally the cry of the Pileated Woodpecker or his 

 vigorous hammering on some dead tree in the depths of the 

 woods proclaimed his presence. 



Red-shouldered Hawks were much commoner there than the 

 Redtails are in Chester county, and little parties of them were 

 often seen soaring over the woods as though the parents were 

 teaching the j'oung the art of hunting. 



Conspicuous by their absence were the Worm-eating, Black 

 and White, Kentucky and Blue-winged Warblers, as well as the 

 Yellow-breasted Chat, though many of our commoner species 

 seemed less abundant here than in Chester county. It was a 

 pleasure to meet our old winter friends the Juncos, and almost 

 the first nest we found was one of these under the edge of a bank, 

 close beside the path, placed exactly as we often find the nest 

 of the Song Sparrow, with partridge-berry and ferns gracefully 

 overhanging. Four handsome eggs were in the nest, and were 

 apparently well incubated. The Turkey Vulture that is so 

 common in Chester county the year round is there almost an 



