JUNE IN FRANCONIA. Le 
haps halfway between the Eagle Cliff Notch 
and the Eagle Lakes. This species, so re- 
cently added to our summer fauna, proves 
to be not uncommon in the mountainous 
parts of New England, though apparently 
confined to the spruce forests at or near the 
summits. I found it abundant on Mount 
Mansfield, Vermont, in 1885, and in the 
summer of 1888 Mr. Walter Faxon sur- 
prised us all by shooting a specimen on 
Mount Graylock, Massachusetts. Doubt- 
less the bird has been singing its perfectly 
distinctive song in the White Mountain 
woods ever since the white man first visited 
them. During the vernal migration, indeed, 
I have more than once heard it sing in east- 
ern Massachusetts. My latest delightful 
experience of this kind was on the 29th of 
May last (1889), while I was hastening to a 
railway train within the limits of Boston. 
Preoceupied as I was, and faintly as the 
notes came to me, I recognized them in- 
stantly; for while the gray-cheek’s song 
bears an evident resemblance to the veery’s 
(which I had heard within five minutes), the 
two are so unlike in pitch and rhythm that 
no reasonably nice ear ought ever to con- 
