18So. ] Faxon, Summer Birds of Berkshire County, Mass. IOS 
65. Galeoscoptes carolinensis. Carsirp.— Common in the lower 
and more open country. 
66. Harporhynchus rufus. Brown THRASHER.—Not common. Not 
seen above an altitude of 1050 feet (North Adams). 
67. Troglodytes aédon. Housrt Wren.—This bird was observed in 
its half-domesticated state near farmhouses in Williamstown, and a few 
were found remote from human habitations on the mountain sides where 
the forest had been cut off and where the dead stubs seemed to afford 
them a congenial home. In such places the Olive-sided Flycatcher also is 
pretty sure to be found. The Wrens are quite shy in such localities, seem- 
ing to retain the primitive habits of their race. 
68. Troglodytes hiemalis. Winter WreN.— Common in suitable 
localities on the Saddle-Back Mountains above 2000 feet. At this season 
they were very confiding, and seemed to take great pride in introducing 
me to their large and noisy families. a 
69. Certhia familiaris americana. AMERICAN BROWN CREEPER. — 
Common in the coniferous forest of the Saddle-Back Mountains. 
70. Sitta carolinensis. WHITE-BELLIED NuUTHATCH.—Not common. 
Killed one near the carriage road not far from the summit of Graylock, 
July ro, and saw a pair with young in the Hopper, July g. 
71. Sitta canadensis. RED-BELLIED NuTHATCH.—Common on the 
mountains. Observed from about 2100 feet to the summit of Graylock, 
in fact wherever there were old black spruces. Like its White-bellied 
cousin this bird at times repeats its nasal ank for a protracted period 
and with rapidity, suggesting to my ears the call of a pygmy Flicker. 
This seems to be its song proper. 
72. Parus atricapillus... Cuyi1cKADEE.—Rather common. 
73. Regulus satrapa. GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET.—During my first 
ascent of Graylock on June 28, I discovered the Golden-crowned Kinglet 
in full summer song in the thick second growth of black spruce through 
which the carriage road passes before emerging into the ‘Mountain Pas- 
ture.’ Approximate altitude, 2200 feet. I afterward found the Kinglet to 
be a not uncommon bird at this place and higher up on the mountain in 
the primitive spruces. It has been recorded from the summits of the 
Catskills by Mr. T. M. Trippe* although Mr. Bicknellf failed to identify 
it in the same region at a later date.} 
* Amer, Nat., VI, 47, 1872. 
* Trans. Linn. Soc. N. Y., I, 144, 1882. 
tSince this was written Mr. William Brewster has published an account of the 
breeding of the Golden-crowned Kinglet in Winchendon, Worcester Co., Mass. 
(Auk, V, 337, Oct., 1888). In Dr. Emmons’s catalogue of Massachusetts birds 
(Hitchcock's ‘Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, and ZoGlogy of Massachu- 
setts’, 1833) this bird is marked as breeding in the State. As professor in Williams 
College, almost within the shadow of Graylock, Dr. Emmons had ample opportunity 
to know of the bird's presence on the mountain in the breeding season, although his 
authority in this case seems to have been universally discredited. In thesecond edition 
