DELAWARE VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 23 



to answer to a call, and so bright and confiding at all times. 

 His sweet whistle of two or three syllables seems to me one of 

 the choicest sounds of the northern woods. 



During the summer of 1917, two pairs of Acadian Chickadees 

 were noted. The pair at Pocono Lake seemed very much in- 

 terested in an old stump, as reported by J. Fletcher Street ; al- 

 though one of the birds was seen by the writer a little later, 

 exhaustive search failed to reveal a nest. These birds were 

 probably left-overs from the unusual southward incursions of 

 the previous winter. 



The search for the nest of the Golden-crowned Kinglet for a 

 long time seemed almost hopeless. But there are always to be 

 found those who are ready to spend hours in trying to penetrate 

 the secret places of the impenetrable spruces, for the sake of the 

 little hope that may remain. It was therefore with peculiar 

 satisfaction that late in June, 1916, I happened to glance at the 

 one right spot in many thousands. There in the twigs pendant 

 from a spruce bough was a little bunch of moss. On climbing 

 the tree and drawing the branch around, it was clear that the 

 bunch was the beginning of a nest. By coming soon after 

 sunrise the birds were found at work. When finished the nest 

 was about as large as one's fist, lined with feathers, and with 

 very thick walls. The set of eight eggs was complete about July 

 4th. The Kinglet's song does not seem to be well known even 

 to those who should have heard it often . It is a thin-voiced, 

 simple performance, five or six " te" notes rising in the scale, 

 followed by a rapid, descending trill. The quality is somewhat 

 like that of the the thinnest notes of the Blackburnian Warbler. 



The Wood Thrush is so infrequent on the Pocono Plateau 

 that it may almost be considered a straggler. Others of the 

 family amply make up for its absence. 



The Veery is abundant, frequenting general woodland, and 

 more particularly, low swampy and boggy spots. The song 

 seems always to suggest something spiral or whirling, and is 

 composed of four or five notes, similar but not just alike, of a 

 peculiar mixture of gentle rasping and metallic ringing. Most 

 persons I think are disappointed when they first hear it. This 

 feeling soon wears off and gives place to increasing [fondness. 



