1920 J Eifrig, Haunts of Cairns' Warbler. 551 



Lake trail, August 21 another was taken from among a flock of several 

 along the small stream entering Rice Lake from the east. 



Regulus satrapa satrapa Licht. Golden-crowned Kinglet. July 

 22, 1914, a male specimen was shot on the east shore of Lake Isabelle. 



Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni (Tschudi.). Olive backed Thrush. 

 1912: Common in the region about Clear Lake during latter June and 

 early July. 1914: Frequently seen and heard again in the first men- 

 tioned locality; August 21 an Olive-backed Thrush was caught in a mouse- 

 trap set under an old log in deep woods at the first rapids of the Isabelle 

 above Rice Lake. The same say another specimen was shot at a small 

 lake one mile east of Rice Lake. 



Hylocichla guttata pallasi (Cab.). Hermit Thrush. Common in 

 the region about Clear Lake during July, 1914. On the 7th a nest with 

 four eggs was found by one of my companions, Prof. N. L. Huff, in a small 

 sphagnum bog sprinkled with low spruces and tamaracs, along the old 

 unused portage trail around the first two rapids of the North Kawishiwi 

 river. July 11, a male bird was shot on the Clear Lake trail opposite these 

 rapids. 



University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 



IN THE HAUNTS OF CAIRNS' WARBLER 



BY C. W. G. EIFRIG. 



Every ornithologist, professional or otherwise, knows with what 

 joyous anticipation one from time to time returns to the scenes of 

 former explorations. There is a halo of romance around the places 

 and the time of one's early efforts in ornithology, where his first 

 love and enthusiasm led him forth on many trips, always eager, 

 expectant, and on the verge of new discoveries. This was the 

 writer's state of mind, when June 14, 1918, he once again found 

 himself at Oakland, near the south-western corner of Maryland, 

 in the so-called glade region of the Maryland Alleghanies, his 

 ultimate goal being Accident, a quiet hamlet about twenty miles 

 north, but still in Garret County. Nature had on her most 

 engaging smile as I set out for my destination over the fine new 

 state road, that connects Oakland with the Old National Pike 

 at Keyser's Ridge. A walk or drive over this road reveals the 



