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the kingbirds must have discovered their chosen 

 home. In Cape Breton, while not so abundant, 

 they were by no means rare. On the other 

 hand, pewees and small flycatchers were few and 

 far between, and great-crested flycatchers, which 

 are common at Chocorua, were not to be seen. 

 Olive-sided flycatchers were present in various 

 parts of Cape Breton in favorable localities ; and 

 when I heard their loud, unmusical call, coming 

 from the tip of some leafless, fire-bleached pine, 

 it always took me back to my first meeting with 

 the bird high up on the desolate ridges between 

 Chocorua and Paugus, where from the pinnacles 

 of dead trees they scanned the air for insects, 

 and wearied nature by intermittent cries. 



Red-eyed vireos were not so numerous in Cape 

 Breton as they are in New Hampshire, but there 

 were enough of them to keep up a running fire 

 of conversation from one end of the island to 

 the other. I saw solitary vireos in several local- 

 ities, one of which was a wooded pasture in In- 

 gonish, near a small sheet of fresh water, and a 

 hill in which the outcropping rock was gypsum. 

 Within an hour I recognized over thirty kinds 

 of birds in this pasture, including, among those 

 not already mentioned in these pages, a white- 

 winged crossbill, a chipping sparrow, and several 

 goldfinches. This white-winged crossbill was 

 the only one that I saw during my trij), but red 



