General Notes 



Birds Observed near High Point, New Jersey, 

 July 19-September 10, 191 1 



A copper bolt marks the highest altitude in New Jersey as 

 1809 feet, at a point eight miles distant from Sussex, N. J., 

 and four and a half miles from Port Jervis, N. Y. High Point 

 is situated on our property, a half-mile from our house and 

 nearer Lake Marcia, which is located in a region of second- 

 growth. Near it is a large swamp, whose floor is carpeted with 

 ferns and overgrown with rhododendrons, hemlocks, spruces, 

 and a few cedars. 



The following birds were noted before the fall migration be- 

 gan : about Lake Marcia the Belted Kingfisher and a sandpiper, 

 probably the Spotted; in the neighboring fields one House Wren, 

 the Vesper and the Grasshopper Sparrows; on the mountain 

 Cedar ^Yaxwings, Goldfinches, and a male Purple Finch; in the 

 vicinity the warblers, Chestnut-sided, Black and White, Canada 

 (one female July 30th), Redstart, and Maryland Yellow -throat, 

 as well as several covies of Grouse and a Green Heron. Near 

 Sussex Bobolinks were observed in June and an American 

 Egret. From our house could be seen Chimney Swifts, the Barn 

 and the Eave Swallows, Nighthawks, Buzzards and Bald Eagles, 

 while Towhees and Blue Jays could always be heard by day 

 and Whip-poor-wills by night. 



From August 25th to September 1st the migrant Redstarts, 

 the Black-throated Green and the Pine Warblers were common. 

 Other single migrants were observed: a Red-breasted Nuthatch, 

 August 11th; a Connecticut Warbler, August 31st (killed by a 

 cat) ; a male Magnolia and a female Blackburnian, September 1st. 

 On the evening of August 29th, during a storm, which had been 

 raging for three days, two warblers were attracted to our house- 

 V indows and captured, a male Black-throated Blue and an im- 



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