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unknown bird, and Mr. Simpson I believe has the only one 

 taken in Warren county. 



In this connection I would like to add that Mr. Simpson's 

 museum of birds, mammals and reptiles, collected and skilfully 

 mounted by his own hands, and mostly from within a short 

 distance of his home, forms one of the most complete and in- 

 teresting local collections I have ever seen. 



One is surprised and gratified to see so many species of birds 

 here, only a little over a hundred miles north of the Delaware 

 Valley zone, that do not occur in Chester county during the 

 breeding season. And when one has spent a day in the moun- 

 tains with Mr. Simpson he begins to realize how it is that he 

 finds so many good things, and how he seems to know just 

 when and where any given bird or animal may be looked for 

 successfully. Just as ready to climb a hundred-foot pine as to 

 scale a five-hundred-foot mountain, the fellow that follows his 

 pace at the end of a week begins to wonder where he can find a 

 new pair of legs. 



During our week in Warren county, we listed seventy-two 

 species of birds, forty-two of which we found nesting, and of the 

 seventy-two, twenty-eight species do not nest in Chester county. 



