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among the moss covered tree trunks about whose prostrate forms 

 spinulose ferns clustered, and water filtered and dripped and lay in 

 tiny pools about the great rocks. Heard in the closing hours of the 

 day, when the silvery notes fell on the air as the glowing tints of 

 sunset faded from the sky and mountain top, and purpling shadows 

 folded in the magnificent rocky ramparts of the long swelling ridge. 



73. Certhia familiaris Aviericana, Brown Creeper. Rarely listed. 



74. Sitta carolinensis. White-breasted Nuthatch. Not common. 



75. Sitta canadensis. Red-breasted Nuthatch. In 1902 only three 

 records, two of these on S. Branch. Never common. 



76. Parus atricapillus, Chickadee. Not very abundant but very 

 generally distributed wherever hemlocks were found. 



77. Regulus satrapa. Golden-crowned Kinglet. In 1902 only found 

 in hemlocks at base of mountain. Later years found them breeding 

 in various places on the slopes. 



78. Hylocichla mustelina, "Wood Thrush. Mr. Howell's record 

 is, "I think there were two pairs nesting there in 1899," "heard the 

 song and alarm notes several times in damp maple woods at base." 

 "In 1900 could find no trace of them, nor have they been observed by 

 Mrs. Straw in Stowe Valley." 



In 1902 I thought I heard the song in the direction of the above 

 named woods, but the distance was too great to get the entire song 

 and it was not repeated. Search failed to discover them. 



In 1904 three pairs were located. One quite near Mr. Harlow's, 

 south of the house. After ten days this pair disappeared. Two pairs 

 remained through the season on the lower slope of the mountain toward 

 the Notch. In 1905 two pairs again in same location. In 1906 same 

 record in this stretch of forest." Second week in July nest was found 

 with four full fledged young. 



79. Hylocichla fuscescens, "Wilson's Thrush. In 1902 no record 

 above plateau, but on S. Branch a most interesting nest found June 8th 

 with four typical "Wilson eggs. Nest in a group of six young maple 

 sprouts growing so close that fallen twigs and leaves had lodged, 

 giving bulky platform 18 inches from ground. Nest well sunk in the 

 leaves, thick walled and deeply cupped, of moss, lined with fine root fibres 

 and grass. The moss was a Polytrichium, the plants laid close to- 

 gether, the root ends beautifully curved at the bottom, and the capsules 

 crowded together at the rim and overlapped by the blanched leaves 

 of the beech. The bird was not typical "Wilson. No warm tint any- 

 where. Back, wings, tail, rump, just the soft gray of the young maple 

 bark, throat matched perfectly the blanched beech leaves over which it 

 was lifted. Breast and sides creamy, streaks running to the bill. Throat 



