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are flocks of Grackles feeding in the fields and nesting in 

 the evergreens which surround nearly every farmhouse, and 

 Meadowlarks are more numerous, while from the fence posts 

 Grasshopper Sparrows buzz while Vespers sing from the tele- 

 graph wires. The Red-headed Woodpecker also became a 

 conspicuous feature of the avifauna. 



We soon passed the cities of Lancaster and Columbia and 

 crossed the long bridge spanning the Susquehanna River into 

 York County which is quickly traversed and at 1.30 P. M. 

 crossed the Conewago Creek into Adams County where we 

 stopped for lunch near Abbottstown and made our first bird 

 list. We made a second stop at Rock Creek east of Gettysburg 

 but were soon driven to take refuge in the town by a severe 

 thunder storm and later in the afternoon proceeded to Fairfield 

 where we spent the night, securing a second bird-list before be- 

 ing driven in by another storm. 



After an early start on the morning of the 17th we reached 

 Jack's Mountain a considerable eminence which we had sighted 

 to the westward the evening before. Here we spent several 

 hours making a pretty careful study of the bird-life up to the 

 summit which is about 1000 feet above sea level. 



There was an interesting combination of species, such typically 

 Carolinian birds as the Chat, Cardinal and Kentucky Warbler 

 occurring along with the Chestnut-sided Warbler a distinctly 

 AUeghanian form, and the Black and White Warbler and Red- 

 start both more characteristic of this latter fauna. Indigo 

 Buntings were most conspicuous and numerous while Hooded 

 Warblers and Red-eyed Vireos came next. 



Returning to the car we ascended the highway by a very 

 steep grade to the road summit of Jack's Mountain about three 

 miles west of Fairfield, where an exceedingly beautiful pano- 

 rama of mountains and valleys lay before us. We descended 

 into another valley and stopped for lunch at Charmian just 

 over the Franklin County line and made another survey of the 

 avifauna finding nearly the same species as at Jack's Mountain. 



We then climbed up the road to Blue Ridge Summit and 

 descended again to Waynesboro and then on to Greencastle 

 where we put up for the night. Here we noted a most inter- 



