THE 



WILSON BULLETIN 



No. 44. 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF 

 ORNITHOLOGY 



Vol. X. SEPTEMBER, 1903. No. 3 



BIRDS OBSERVED ON MT. MANSFIELD AND THE 

 WEST END OF STOWE VALLEY AT THE 

 BASE OF THE MOUNTAIN, IN 

 THE SUMMER OF 1903. 



BY MRS. ELIZABETH B. DAVENPORT. 



In the October Auk, 1902, appeared Mr. Arthur H. How- 

 ell's "Preliminary List of Summer Birds of Mt. Mansfield," 

 the. first published article treating exclusively of the birds of 

 that region. Incidentally Mr. Howell summarizes previously 

 published Avi-faunal lists to date, also some of the literature 

 upon the Flora of the region. 



His story covered June 14-24, 1900, June 23 to July 2, 1902, 

 and he found some interesting differences in bird distribution 

 in these two years, his records differing also from those of 

 Mr. Bradford Torrey made in 1885. The face of this territory 

 is undergoing changes wrought by the lumbering interests, 

 which are likely to increase in the near future, and it seems 

 desirable that careful study be given the region, and note made 

 of the bird life. 



Mr. Howell offers his "List" chiefly as "a contribution to our 

 knowledge of the breeding range of Canadian Species,'' and 

 finds its "faunal relationships almost pure Canadian," "even 

 the few Alleghanian species found in the valley being extreme- 

 ly rare." 



