AO Todd, Birds of Indiana and Clearfield Counties, Pa. ,^ n 



Spinus tristis. — Numerous everywhere, except in the forest. 

 Pooceetes gramineus. — Common in the pastures and along the road- 

 sides. 



Ammodramus savannarum passerinus. — One pair was met with, fre- 

 quenting a pasture field across the road from the house. 



Spizella socialis. — Common and familiar as usual. 



Spizella pusilla. — Numerous in waste pastures and in the bushy growth 

 along fences. 



Melospiza fasciata. — Abundant; found in its usual haunts. 



Pipilo erythrophthalmus. — Common in briery thickets and on the edges 

 of the woods. 



Cardinalis cardinalis. — Several pairs were found, all in second-growth 

 bushy thickets, both in the creek bottoms and on the hillsides. 



Habia ludoviciana. — The Rose-breasted Grosbeak is one of the most 

 abundant birds of this region. It does not affect the oak woods of 

 Chestnut Ridge, nor yet the denser parts of the hemlock forest, but pre- 

 fers the rich woods that border this last, as well as the upland woods near 

 streams, and the tracts of second-growth interspersed. 



Passerina cyanea. — This bird was found commonly in its usual haunts 

 of bushy, briery thickets along the edges of the woods. 



Piranga erythromelas. — Another very abundant species, especially 

 partial to the hemlocks. 



Petrochelidon lunifrons. — Observed about farm buildings, but not so 

 numerous as the next species. 



Chelidon erythrogaster. — Abundant about farm buildings. 



Vireo olivaceus. — Very abundant throughout the woodland, in the 

 bottoms and on the hilltops. 



Vireo gilvus. — One pair was noticed in an orchard surrounding a farm- 

 house. 



Mniotilta varia. — This species was one of the very few that were uni- 

 formly common in the hemlocks, in the second-growth, and in the oak 

 forest of Chestnut Ridge. 



Helminthophila chrysoptera. — But one observed, — on the edge of a 

 wood on the bank of Two Lick Creek. 



Compsothlypis americana. — Very common in the hemlocks, where its 

 humming note could be heard continually. It usually kept high up in 

 the very tops of the trees. 



Dendroica aestiva. — Found mostly in the orchards about farmhouses; 

 but two nests, one containing young, were discovered in a growth of wil- 

 lows fringing Two Lick Creek just behind the village. 



Dendroica caerulescens. — This Warbler was confined to the hemlock 

 forest of the creek bottoms, where it was abundant and in full song, haunt- 

 ing the dense laurel and rhododendron thicket beneath, though some- 

 times mounting to the trees. 



Dendroica maculosa. — Equally abundant with the last species, and like 

 it confined to the hemlocks and undergrowth below, where its sprightly 

 song was constantly heard. 



