120 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 57. 



Hylocichia fuscescens. Wilson Thrush. — Tolerahly common mi- 

 grant. Many under the electric lights. 



Hylocichia aljciae. Gray-cheeked Thrush. — Tolerahly common 

 migrant. Many under the electric lights. 



Hylocichia guttata pailasii. Hermit Thrush. — Tolerably common 

 migrant. 



Merula migratoria. American Robin. — Common summer resident. 



Sialia sialis. Bluebird. — Common summer resident. 



SOME ^^■ESTERX .AIMROXD.XCK BIRDS. 



F. II. HALL. 



Four weeks dttring late August and early September, 1906, 

 were spent by a companion and myself in a canoeing trip 

 through about twenty beautiful lakes of the western Adiron- 

 dacks. In ni}^ anticipations, not a small part of the pleasure of 

 the trip lay in the expected opportunity it would give to see the 

 birds, both new and old, in strictly "wild" surroundings. We 

 found, alas ! that the wildness of a quarter century ago is truly 

 a thing of the past. These lakes have beconije most popular as 

 summer resorts, and cottages and hotels almost line the shores 

 of those not on "State Land." Hardly a day passed during 

 our loO-mile trip from Old Forge to Saranac Lake on which 

 we did not hear the querulous voice of the quarrelsome Eng- 

 lish Sparrow — striking evidence of fairly permanent human 

 occupancy of the wooded hillsides and foliage hidden valleys 

 that border these sparkling lakes. For considerable distances 

 in any direction from a summer hotel, lakeside village, or lum- 

 ber camp, this "rat of the air" was liable to be the principle 

 bird in range of eye or field glass. Wild, still, however, are 

 many square miles of territory adjacent to Fulton Chain, Ra- 

 quette, Blue Mountain, Forked, Spectacle, and the Saranac 

 Lakes, but the forests are hardly primeval. Any considerable 

 areas untouched by the lumberman's ax are hard to find even 

 on lands supposedly protected by the Constitution of the great 

 state of New York. Too often, we fear, the protectors of the 

 forests have been friends of the lumbermen, and have been 

 guided by the significant query, "\\'hat's the Constitution be- 

 tween friends ?" 



