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so seldom that I always considered 

 myself fortunate when I did so. 



Besides these more or less rare 

 birds, the common ones such as the 

 White-throated Nuthatch, Hairy Wood- 

 pecker, Oven-bird and Towhee were 

 around in large numbers, so that it 

 would be hard to find a place that con- 

 tained more birds that this nole or so 

 on the Pike. 



Thos. D. Burleigh. 

 Pittsburg, Pa. 



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Cape Cod Notes. 



With a friend, Mr. Howard A. Jones, 

 of Greenwood, Mass., I spent three 

 days August 30th to September 1st, 

 1913, at a hunting camp at Great Her- 

 ring Pond, near the town of Cedar- 

 ville. Cape Cod. This pond is perhaps 

 two miles long by three-fourths of a 

 mile wide, and is connected by Car- 

 ter's River with a smaller pond called 

 Little Herring, about one-half a mile 

 to the North. These two ponds are 

 situated on a narrow part of the Cape, 

 and are only about three miles from 

 Cape Cod Bay, on the North and pos- 

 sibly a little longer distance from Bu^:- 



zard's Bay on the South. The coun- 

 try around the ponds is rather hilly, 

 with very sandy soil, the prevailing 

 vegetation consisting of scrubby oak 

 brush three or four feet high, which at 

 this season of the year bears an 

 abundand supply of unripe acorns. 



Formerly a thin growth of pitch 

 pine forty or fifty feet tall was scat- 

 tered over much of this territory, but 

 the forest fires, which annually sweep 

 over the Cape districts have killed 

 most of the trees near the ponds, and 

 their bear trunks and limbs stand out 

 very prominently above the oak 

 growth. 



The path, or wood road, from the 

 camp to the beach on the north or 

 Cape Cod Bay side, leads through this 

 kind of country for about two and one- 

 half miles, the remainder of the way 

 being an ordinary carriage road where 

 we pass through the village of Cedar- 

 ville. Occasionally a few bushes of 

 beach plums, with clusters of purple 

 fruit nearly ripe, relieve the monotony 

 of the scrub oaks. 



The beach of coarse yellow sand, is 

 about seventy-five feet wide at ordin- 

 ary high tide, and, on the side toward 

 the woods, the sand bluffs rise almost 

 perpendicularly to a height of about 

 fifty feet, and in a few places the 

 higher peaks are fully seventy-five 

 feet above the sea level. 



As we travel eastward along the 

 beach these sand bluffs gradually de- 

 crease in height, until finally, at a 

 distance of possibly three miles, the 

 land becomes a fiat point of sand, 

 sparsely grown with patches of coarse 

 beach grass, and soon we come to a 

 river flowing down from the salt 

 marshes, which are situated a few 

 hundred yards inland from the beach 

 proper. 



Saturday, August 30. we spent most 

 of the day at the beach described 

 above. Of the t,liure-birdb which we 



