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hamlet on the river, which had on Easter day of 1910, been 

 overwhelmed by one of the none too rare landslides, with a 

 resulting' death list of thirty persons, the bodies of some of 

 which have never been found. From there I was driven to 

 the humble abode of a small farmer, in the midst of the wil- 

 derness, between Holland's Mills and High Falls. With 

 several small patches of arable soil carved out of the dense 

 tangled woods, more or less surrounded by hig'h rocky hills, 

 knolls of almost bare granite, with swampy ponds between, 

 it seemed surprising that these German farmers are able, by 

 sheer indomitable energy and hard labor, not only to eke 

 out a bare existence, but are even able to lay aside small sums 

 of money against a rainy day. Here the same birds were 

 met with as at Inlet, Avith the addition of a few. A pair of 

 Pileated Woodpeckers {Phlceotomus pUeatus ahieticola) ap- 

 parently had their young in a hole high up in one of the large 

 trees along the brook, which runs at the foot of a long, high 

 hill. To the repertoire of notes which I had recorded in my 

 bird ledger they added another, a clucking, soft kyiick Some- 

 times I started them from the ground. The Oven-bird and 

 Northern Yellow-throat were a little more abundant here too, 

 also the 'Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and the Rusty Blackbird. 

 These last are on the increase. Their typical habitats are the 

 ponds and watercourses in the woods where, on a former oc- 

 casion, I found a family of young just out of the nest. The 

 young were at this time fully grown. On Lac Ste. Helene a 

 huge Osprey nest was seen on a tall dead tree called ram- 

 pike here. From the marshy corners of the lakes, from the 

 highest tip of the spruces, was heard the '' Hood, take care," 

 of the Olive-sided Flycatcher, and in similar locations a 

 brood of young Black Duck were seen. Nests of Chipping 

 Sparrow, Slate-colored Junco, White-throated Sparrow, and 

 Rose-breasted Grosbeak were found, all with fresh eggs, 

 while nests of Cedar Waxwing and Kingbirds contained 

 young, and one of Goldfinch in a small birch was ready for 

 eggs. A pair of ATourning Warblers in the underbrush in 

 a clearing showed bv their anxietv their nest to be near at 



