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Four pairs of Golden-wings nest annually in this field, but 

 four days of diligent search would not reveal all their nests, 

 for almost every yard of die entire expanse is a fine hiding 

 place for them. This coupled with the irregularity of the 

 different pairs to begin housekeeping, and the large percent- 

 age of deserted nests, renders the finding of eggs or young dif- 

 ficult. 



Dungeon or ^ ne little brooklet which babbles over the 

 Barnes' Hollow* pebble beds, and dashes against rocks, in 

 its hurry down the wooae.. nollow border- 

 ing the Newell House Field, joins the larger brook. — which 

 drains Dungeon Hollow and its surrounding hillsides, — a few 

 hundred feet from its junction with Smith Creek. 



The main ridge mentioned in the preceding topic, extends 

 half-way around this hollow, culminating in a knob known as 

 "Barnes' Knob," — die highest elevation for miles around. — 

 Here it deflects to the eastward, but throws out a "spur" which 

 extends on around Dungeon Hollow and terminates near the 

 end of the Savers' Woods "spur." Thus we have the Xewell 

 House Field and the Dungeon Hollow region almost enclosed 

 by this ridge and the two "spurs." Between the ends of these 

 spurs the brook cuts its way through a very narrow strip of 

 bottom land, carrying the waters gathered from nearly a 

 thousand acres. 



More than a hundred acres of forest still remain in the 

 Dungeon Hollow region, the major part of which is in one 

 piece on the east hillside, extending from the run half-way up 

 the hill and across the ravines. A good sized tract crowns the 

 "spur" on the south and west. 



Most of this land is not held in very high esteem by the 

 Golden-wings, — a smaller amount of the cultivated fields be- 

 ing given over to briers and luxuriant vegetation. The upper 

 parts of the woods being dry. and occupied by red oaks, black 

 oaks and other trees, and is without undergrowth. 



