I have found the nest of the water thrush among the roots 

 of a tree on the shore of the lake. This bird is also common 

 with us. Of the woodpecker family, we have all the common 

 ones. Occasionally we see the pileaited, and once I saw the 

 Arctic three-toed, being near enough to actually count the 

 toes. We have, also, one record of the red-headed wood- 

 pecker. We have several kinds of ducks. I saw, one day, a 

 mother and ten little ones. Loons we see frequently and hear 

 their weird calls on the lake ; once a seal gull was seen, while 

 at another time a blue heron came to us. Just once have I 

 heard the whip-poor-will in this region. The white-throated 

 sparrow is very common and comes to us for crumbs, while 

 the hermit thrush sings almost at our very door, so near that I 

 can watch the delicate quiver of its throat as it sings. 



Last spring I heard a new thrush — there was no mistaking 

 i'ts being a thrush, but I was not able to identify it except as 

 I thought Burroughs' description of the song of the Bicknell's 

 or grey-cheeked thrush very closely described it. He says : 

 "It seems as if the bird were blowing in a delicate slender 

 golden tube, so fine and yet so flute-like and resonant the song 

 appeared." This was heard in the Catskills and he continues : 

 "Probably never did there go up from the top of a mountain 

 a smaller song to greet the day, albeit it was of purest har- 

 mony." I wish some of you would come next summer and 

 identify it. 



About six miles from here we saw a cardinal bird ; we were 

 able to get very near it and thus identify it without doubt. 

 I thought at the time that it did not come so far north, but 

 afterwards found it in the list of Vermont birds. 



Of the many warblers that we have, I have identified 

 eiarhteen. 



The Legislature of 1910 created the office of State Orni- 

 thologist, to be appointed by the State Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture. Mr. Carlton D. Howe of Essex Junction received the 

 appointment. 



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