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anywhere until, on my journey out of the 

 mountains, I descended into the beautiful 

 Cullowhee Valley. 



At Highlands the birds were a mixed 

 lot, Southerners and Northerners delight- 

 fully jumbled : a few Carolina wrens (one 

 was heard whistling from the summit of 

 Whiteside !) ; a single Bewick wren, sing- 

 ing and dodging along a fence in the heart 

 of the village ; tufted titmice ; Carolina 

 chickadees; Louisiana water thrushes and 

 turkey buzzards : and on the other side of 

 the account, brown creepers, red -bellied 

 nuthatches, black - throated blues, Canada 

 warblers, Blackburnians, snow-birds, and 

 olive-sided flycatchers. 



An unexpected thing was the common- 

 ness of blue golden-winged warblers, chats, 

 and brown thrashers (the chats less common 

 than the other two) at an elevation of 3800 

 feet. Still more numerous, in song continu- 

 ally, even on the summit of Satulah, were 

 the chestnut-sided warblers, although Mr. 

 Brewster, in his tour through the region, 

 "rarely saw more than one or two in any 

 single day : " a third instance, as seemed 

 likely, of a species that had taken advan- 



