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where a decrease from former numbers. Let us hope that it has 

 correspondingly increased elsewhere in its range. The Brown 

 Thrasher, Red-eyed Vireo, and Wood Pewee also seemed much 

 less common than formerly. 



Prairie Horned Larks are not uncommon breeders here. They 

 are absent in summer below 2000 feet. A pair could usually be 

 seen at certain places on the roads, always at the same ones. Of 

 flycatchers the Crested is found, the Kingbird more commonly, 

 and each orchard generally harbors one pair of the Least, also a 

 pair of Baltimore Orioles. Bobolinks are more numerous now 

 than formerly, as it is to be expected when agriculture spreads out 

 at the expense of the forest. At Thayer ville, at the bouse where 

 President Cleveland spent his honeymoon, an Alder Flycatcher 

 was seen in the alders lining Deep Creek. The former Lake 

 Cleveland has disappeared and is changed into fields. Meadow- 

 larks are common, Redwings, less so, because cattail swamps are 

 absent; and they have to frequent the alder-bordered natural 

 meadows. A nest of a Dair was found 20 feet up in an apple tree 

 in an orchard adjoining one of these meadows. Nearby the 

 call of the Kingfisher could be heard over Bear Creek, as well as 

 the song of the Cardinal. 



One of the commonest songs here now is that of the Scarlet 

 Tanager. It frequents the tops of wooded ridges, from where its 

 strident notes could nearly always be heard, but sometimes is 

 found in the woods on the slopes and even in hollows. It is 

 decidedly on the increase. 



In the finch and sparrow tribe, the Goldfinches are common, 

 Indigo Buntings not rare, Vesper, Song, Field and Chipping 

 Sparrows plentiful. With three Vesper Sparrows we had a unique 

 experience. Coming home one evening from where I had forgotten 

 my glasses under the Blackburnian's nesting tree, a new song 

 made us stop below a Vesper Sparrow on a telephone wire. It 

 was loud and musical, entirely different from the usual Vesper 

 performance. A day or two later, on the road to Negro Moun- 

 tain, I heard the same song from one of the same species, and a 

 little farther on another one. I made sure it was the Vesper 

 Sparrow but the song was plainly that of Bewick's Wren! My 

 theory is that a family of Vespers was raised near the nest of a 



