Breeding Birds of Passaic and Sussex 

 Counties, N. J. 



BY WILLIAM L. BAILY. 



The distribution of birds in the central and southern portions 

 of the State of New Jersey has been fairly well established, but 

 the counties along the northern border of the State have been 

 very much neglected and little definite information has been re- 

 corded from that part of the State. 



With a view of making the acquaintance of the region in 

 the height of the breeding season in Passaic and Sussex Coun- 

 ties, Dr. William E. Hughes and Messrs. S. N. Rhoads and 

 W. L. Baily began operations at Sterling Forest, Greenwood 

 Lake, Passaic County, arriving there at 6 p. m. June 6th, 

 1909. Sterling Forest Station is the terminus of a branch of 

 the Erie Railroad on the northern state line between New 

 Jersey and New York, and on the eastern side of the beautiful 

 Greenwood Lake 650 feet elevation, which is about eight miles 

 long by three-quarters of a mile wide, extending about four 

 miles into each state, and is flanked by mountains rising 

 from 600 to 1,300 feet above it. From the top of these the 

 whole country round appears as a rugged mountainous region, 

 the Wawayanda range, the highest in view, being about 1,400 

 feet above sea level. Greenwood Mountain rises about 1,350 

 feet above the lake on the west side, being the culminating 

 point of the rugged hog-back of the Bearfort Mountain range. 

 A wide valley of open cultivated country sweeps southwesterly 

 parallel to the frowning hills, covered generally with the decid- 

 uous trees of thirty to forty years' growth; hemlocks are scat- 

 tered here and there, survivors of the last cutting. The outlet 

 of the lake flows to the southeast through a rocky, precipitous 

 gorge, along part of which the railroad cuts its way from New 

 York City. 



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