^°190?"^] Allen, Summer Birds of Southern Vermont. DO 



73. Olbiorchilus hiemalis. Winter Wren. — Rather common at L. 

 At W. B. I found it positively abundant on the higher levels and occa- 

 sional as low as 1200 or 1300 feet. 



74. Certhia familiaris americana. Brown Creeper. — Rather common 

 on the higher levels. 



75. Sitta carolinensis. White-breasted Nuthatch. — Not very com- 

 mon. 



76. Sitta canadensis. Red-breasted Nuthatch. — Rather common 

 at L. Unexpectedly uncommon at W. B. ; only three observed there. 



77. Parus atricapillus. Chickadee. — Common. 



78. Parus hudsonicus. Hudsonian Chickadee. — Two observed June 

 29, 1895, on summit of Stratton Mountain at an altitude of about 3800 

 feet (Auk, XIII, 1896, 345). I fully expected to find the bird on Killington 

 Peak but on my two ascents of the mountain I was disappointed. 



79. Regulus satrapa. Golden-crowned Kinglet. — Rather common 

 on the liigher levels at L. Commoner at W. B. 



80. Hylocichla mustelina. Wood Thrush. — I was surprised to find 

 the Wood Thrush a fairly common bird in the neighborhood of West 

 Bridgewater. I heard nine individuals, eight of wliich were singing. The 

 ninth was heard calling near the top of the mountain on the eastern side 

 of the Plymouth Pond brook, at an elevation of probably 2000 or 2500 feet. 

 The others were at lower altitudes and cliiefly at the foot of the mountains. 

 Their songs could be heard from the road together with the songs of Wil- 

 son's, Olive-backed, and Hermit Thrushes. The first one I heard was on 

 my way back from Killington Peak, where I had found the Bicknell's 

 Thrushes in full song, so that I heard that day all five of our New England 

 thrushes singing on their breeding-grounds> — an experience which I had 

 enjoyed only once before, at Chocorua, N. H. I beheve that the Wood 

 Thrush is extending its range in northern New England, and it is not 

 unlikely that it may now be found at Londonderry, but I am certain that 

 as recently as 1895 it was absent or at any rate rare in that locality. It 

 also breeds farther north in Vermont. Mr. A. H. Howell found it at the 

 base of Mt. Mansfield in 1899 (Auk, XVIII, 1901, 345), and I found four 

 or five individuals singing at Willoughby Lake in June, 1896. Mr. Brad- 

 ford Torrey has also reported the bird from Lake Memphremagog, though 

 from the Canadian side of the border ('Birds in the Bush,' Boston, 1885). 

 The occurrence of the bird in the Province of Quebec, by the way, is not 

 noted by Mr. Ridgway in 'The Birds of North and Middle America, 

 Part IV.' 



81. Hylocichla fuscescens. Wilson's Thrush. — Pretty common at 

 L. Abundant at W. B. Confined to the lower levels. 



82. Hylocichla aliciee bicknelli. Common on and near the summit of 

 KiUington Peak and descending to 3200 feet. Mr. R. H. Howe, Jr., — on 

 the authority of Mr. G. H. Ross, as he writes me, — gives it to Pico Peak as 

 well as KiUington. My failure to find it there on June 25 was very likely 

 due to the fact that the birds were not active at the time, the day being a. 



