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and again in 1895 I visited the same place from June 17 to July 1. 

 In 1907 I conducted my observations in the neighborhood of West 

 Bridgewater, in Windsor County, from June 18 to June 29. 



Londonderry is in Lat. 43° 13', in the valley of the West River, 

 about midway between the New Hampshire and New York lines. 

 The altitude of the principal village. South Londonderry, is 1020 

 feet; that of the North Village, three miles farther up the river, is 

 1100 feet. The house where I spent my nights is on the brow 

 of a hill on the east side of the toAvn and is about 1450 feet above the 

 sea. The country is smooth and comparatively fertile. The main 

 Green Mountain range, on the west side of the valley, reaches its 

 culmination for this region in Stratton Mountain (3859 feet), 

 said to be the highest mountain in Vermont south of Killington 

 Peak. On the east side. Glebe Mountain, or the Glebe, is the 

 highest, with an altitude of 2944 feet. These mountains were 

 in 1886 and 1895 — I am uninformed as to present conditions — 

 almost entirely covered with forest, mostly well advanced second 

 growth but with more or less of the original. They are graceful in 

 shape, with flowing outlines, and present little of the rugged in 

 appearance. The West River is a swift, shallow stream, of only 

 moderate width, except above the milldams. There are consider- 

 able stretches of intervale in places along its banks. 



The woods of this region were mostly yellow birch, hemlock, 

 red spruce, balsam fir, and sugar maple. White pines were only 

 fairly common. The deciduous trees and mixed growth extended 

 well up the mountainsides, even to the summit of the Glebe. The 

 character of the country was sufficiently diversified to attract a 

 respectable variety of birds. 



West Bridgewater, the centre of my operations in 1907 (June 18- 

 29), is a little hamlet situated in the narrow valley of the Otta- 

 quechee River in the heart of the Green Mountains, in Lat. 43° 36' 

 and nearly due north of Londonderry. It is at the extreme west 

 of the township of Bridgewater and also of Windsor County, a 

 considerable part of the village being in Sherburne, Rutland 

 County, in fact. Three other towns corner near by, — Mendon, 

 Shrewsbury, and Plymouth. The altitude of the river-bottom at 

 this point is about 1100 feet, and the mountains rise steeply above it, 

 covered entirely with forest except for a few hill farnxs on some of 



