1920 J General Notes. 59 1 



Of land birds I found the following, all evidently breeding: Kingbird, 

 Northern Kaven, Crow, Cowbird, Savannah Sparrow, White-throated 

 Sparrow, Slate-colored Junco, Song Sparrow, Barn Swallow, Tree Swal- 

 low, Yellow, Myrtle and Black-poll Warblers, Maryland Yellow-throat, 

 Redstart, Winter Wren, Acadian Chickadee, Bicknell's and Olive-backed 

 Thrushes and Robin. 



Black-poll Warblers were abundant. I found only two Olive-backed 

 Thrushes. Bicknell's Thrush was very common in the low spruce woods 

 Its song always suggests to me the song of the Veery but it is more thin and 

 wiry, as if it were played on the strings of a zither. I found the bird 

 very tame, and I frequently watched it from a distance of five or six 

 yards. 



Mr. John Crowell, the keeper of the light for many years, and his elder 

 daughter, Mrs. Bernice Meredith, have taken great interest in the birds 

 of the island and their conservation, and have made a small collection of 

 specimens which they have mounted. Among these the following are 

 worthy of record: Purple Gallinule, Saw-whet Owl, Long-eared Owl, 

 Mourning Dove, Black-billed Cuckoo, Scarlet Tanager and Summer 

 Tanager. It is to be hoped that the island will be made a Bird Reserva- 

 tion by the Provincial Government. — Charles W. Townsend, 98 Pinck- 

 ney St., Boston, Mass. 



Some Summer Residents of Dutchess County, N. Y. — With a 

 view to listing the resident species for Dutchess County, N. Y., and with 

 the purpose of eventually making a zone map of these birds, the writers 

 spent June 12, 25 to 29, and July 11 and 13, 1920, in the eastern part of the 

 county and found conditions very different from those existing in the 

 lower altitudes along the Hudson River. This was especially true with 

 regard to the Mniotiltidae. 



At Whaley's Lake (altitude 690 feet) in the southeastern part of the 

 county and not more than sixty miles from New York City, we found 

 two Bald Eagles — one fully mature bird and an immature specimen. They 

 were seen several times flying to and from Mulkin's Hill (1200 feet) but 

 a search failed to reveal any nest. Mr. Eaton, in 'Birds of New York,' 

 mentions the Bald Eagle as breeding at " Whelby Pond," and it is thought 

 that this place is undoubtedly meant. 



On Niggerbush Mountain (1810 feet), near Mt. Riga Station, Hn the 

 extreme northeastern corner of the county, another Eagle in dark plumage 

 was observed. 



The Warblers were especially numerous about Whaley's Lake. On 

 about one acre of scrubby growth on the easterly slope of Mulkin's Hill 

 at an altitude of about nine hundred feet the following were observed: 

 Black and White, Worm-eating, Blue-winged, Golden-winged, Nashville, 

 Chestnut-sided, Ovenbird, Maryland Yellow-throat, Canada and Red- 

 start. About a hundred feet higher a fine Brewster's Warbler was dis- 

 covered and in a swamp on the summit a Water-Thrush, presumed to be 



