Rogers — On Second Lake Birds, Co()s Co., X. H. i*;? 



to Second Lake, and then eight miles to birst Lake, the higgest 

 of alL South to First Lake all the land is forest, part of it 

 virgin. 



At Fourth Lake there are no buildings : at First Lake a num- 

 ber. I had nothing to do with either. I arrived at Second Lake 

 August 2Sth, 1905, and stayed at Idlewild Camp at about the 

 middle of the west shore. 



My first hunt was to ]>addle along the north-west shore and 

 go up the river a short distance. I found what the rest of my 

 two-weeks' stay confirmed, that the characteristic of the forest 

 bird life at that season was large flocks of small birds. A char- 

 acteristic flock would consist of Chickadees ( the first in num- 

 bers as in gaiety ) with a lesser number of their Hudsonian bro- 

 thers (easily distinguished at a glance or as far as they could 

 be heard), several Red-bellied X'uthatches ( hardlv second to 

 the Chickadees in volubility), several species of warblers (the 

 commonest was the Myrtle, with the Black-throated Green sec- 

 ond), a few Golden-crowned Kinglets, some Juncos (most 

 abundant of the Fringillidse) and White-throated Sparrows in 

 the brush, and ]>erhaps a Red-eyed \"ireo or two, a Flycatcher 

 and one or two other species. This afternoon the Flvcatcher 

 was an Olive-sided and one of the " other species " was my first 

 Philadel])hia \'ireo, most obliginglv low down in the alders 

 along the river. I saw four other individuals of this species 

 during my stay and all were in alders. 



It seemed strange to find a gull in this " world of green hills," 

 but I saw one of some small species fl}ing over the lake, Aug- 

 ust oOth. 



I did not see an owl of any kind. The only one I heard, a 

 Great Horned, began hooting back of camp about five o'clock 

 one sunny afternoon- " Hoo hoo-hoo hooo hoo." He varied 

 this remark only by occasionally slurring and once or twice 

 dropping the last syllable. 



On September ^d I took the trip to Third Lake and back 

 with a fellow camper. Nothing unusual appeared till we were 

 nearly there, when a search for a woodpecker hammering 

 overhead brought to light one with a white-barred back. — my 

 first of the American Three-toed species. The lake proved to 



