DELAWARE VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 15 



The general aspect of the region about Pocono Lake is sug- 

 gestive of a typical boreal country, yet there are certain conspic- 

 uous areas of second growth resulting through the reforestation 

 of burnt areas, which possess an environment not unlike that 

 of the typical Carolinian regions farther south and support an 

 invasion of such characteristic Carolinian forms, as the Yellow- 

 breasted Chat and Chewink, The forests adjacent to Pocono 

 Lake are principally of second growth and are composed of 

 deciduous trees. Farther back pine, spruce and balsam hold 

 sway, and wherever little streams break through, tamarack and 

 rhododendron swamps abound, with associated flora of such con- 

 spicuous forms as the Withe Rod, Labrador Tea, Rhodora and 

 Azalea canescens, and a wealth of herbaceous plants including 

 the Dwarf Cornel, Trientalis, Painted Trillium, Golden Thread, 

 Clintonia and in the more remote bogs the Creeping Snowberry, 

 Calla and Linnaea. 



How circumspect and limited one's impressions may become 

 was evidenced on the morrow at daybreak, or rather during the 

 gray hours preceding dawn, when the bird chorus broke forth. 

 The writer, who had been accustomed to awaken from day to 

 day to a medley of Carolinian bird-songs, was utterly con- 

 founded by a chorus of entirely unfamiliar notes. For the 

 Wood Thrush call had been substituted the high-pitched, 

 deliberate phrases of the Hermit. The Solitary Vireo had pre- 

 empted the rights of the Red-eye. The Magnolia Warbler, it 

 seemed, was contributing fully one-half the volume of the entire 

 bird chorus, and as incidents to the whole the merry twitter of 

 Juncos and the soft plaint of the White-throats were difficult 

 to disassociate from bleak and wintry aspects of our home 

 meadows. 



The writer does not wish to convey the impression that the 

 finding of bird nests in this varied and wooded country is an 

 easy matter. On the contrary it is not. Most of the nests 

 were located only after persistent and diligent search. Ex- 

 cepting to Baily and Carter the place was an unfamiliar one, 

 and many of the species had never been noted by the rest of us 

 save as migrants. 



Pocono Lake is bordered by a narrow strip of timber princi- 



