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haps halfway between the Eagle Cliff Notch 

 and the Eagle Lakes. This species, so re- 

 cently added to our summer fauna, proves 

 to be not uncommon in the mountainous 

 parts of New England, though apparently 

 confined to the spruce forests at or near the 

 summits. I found it abundant on Mount 

 Mansfield, Vermont, in 1885, and in the 

 summer of 1888 Mr. Walter Faxon sur- 

 prised us all by shooting a specimen on 

 Mount Gray lock, Massachusetts. Doubt- 

 less the bird has been singing its perfectly 

 distinctive song in the White Mountain 

 woods ever since the white man first visited 

 them. During the vernal migration, indeed, 

 I have more than once heard it sing in east- 

 ern Massachusetts. My latest delightful 

 experience of this kind was on the 29th of 

 May last (1889), while I was hastening to a 

 railway train within the limits of Boston. 

 Preoccupied as I was, and faintly as the 

 notes came to me, I recognized them in- 

 stantly; for while the gray -cheek's song 

 bears an evident resemblance to the veery's 

 (which I had heard within five minutes), the 

 two are so unlike in pitch and rhythm that 

 no reasonably nice ear ought ever to con- 



