1920 J Eifrig, Haunts of Cairns' Warbler. Do! 



hard, my companion, told me that during or after a late snow- 

 storm in the previous April, several Flickers had been found dead, 

 showing that even such a large and hardy species sometimes 

 succumbs to inclement weather. 



Raptores are decidedly rare here, because people shoot all they 

 can. We saw only two Redtails in Glotfelty's primeval piece of 

 timber in Negro Mountain, where we have seen them at each 

 visit, probably always the same pair. Twice I saw a Sharp- 

 shinned Hawk furiously pursued by a Kingbird, that fairly 

 screamed with rage. Turkey Vultures are still common. The 

 old hollow logs and the many cavities between the rocks along 

 the tops of the mountains offer good nesting sites for them, and 

 the sheep, killed by roving dogs, no doubt furnish them with 

 sustenance. 



Among gallinaceous birds the Ruffed Grouse is still fairly 

 common. Once we startled several, together with a Rose-breasted 

 Grosbeak, out of a large shadbush, where they had been busily 

 feeding on the luscious berries. I was told that foxes are a great 

 scourge to the Grouse, killing quite a few on the nests or at least 

 destroying the nests. The Bobwhite has sadly dwindled away; 

 we heard its call only once, and the Wild Turkey is almost gone. 



Since there are no water bodies here beside the bush-covered 

 creeks, there are few water birds to be found. At two small 

 artificial ponds I saw a family of Killdeer and a Spotted Sandpiper. 

 In the house of the owner of one of the ponds, I saw mounted 

 specimens of Pied-billed and Horned Grebes, as well as a Lesser 

 Scaup, which occasionally drop into the pond during migration. 



The only addition to the avifauna of the region covered by the 

 list in volume XXI of 'The Auk,' was made at Cumberland, 

 whither I went from Accident. The old trails on Savage Moun- 

 tain to Wolf Gap and Finzel, on Will's Mountain to the Mason and 

 Dixon line and others, added the warblers of the lower country 

 to the list, such as the Hooded, Worm-eating, Prairie and Pine 

 Warblers, and the Redstart, which should have been met with 

 in the mountains, also Cooper's and the Broad-winged Hawk. 

 The Swan Ponds — not Swamp Ponds as given in my former list — 

 on the West Virginia side of the Potomac, I found ditched and 

 drained and turned into corn fields. However, we found a family 



