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which may perhaps be considered as peculiar to the Transition 

 area as any of our birds. It occurs locally in several places in 

 the central part of the State and I found a single pair even so 

 far up as Wonalancet, near the foot of Mt. Passaconaway in a 

 corner of a broad meadow which was grown up to sedges, 

 grass, and white hellebore with a sparse covering of wet Sphag- 

 num moss. 



Of other animals ranging northward into the Transition area 

 of New Hampshire, may be mentioned, among mammals, the 

 southern Flying Squirrel i^Sciiiropieriis volucella) which occurs 

 at least as far as Lake Winnipesaukee, the northeastern Gray 

 Squirrel {Sciurics carolinensis leiccotis) which even among the 

 White Mountains, inhabits the beech woods at the lower alti- 

 tudes, and the eastern Cottontail Rabbit {Lepits Uoridamcs 

 transitionalis') which is reported from as far as Webster, where 

 it appears to have come in within recent years. Among reptiles, 

 the Box Tortoise {Cistudo Carolina^ has been reported from 

 Pelham and from lyce in the southeastern corner of the state by 

 Mr. W. H. Huse (: 01). The same author finds the Yellow- 

 spotted Tortoise {C/ielopus guttahts) common about Manches- 

 ter in the Merrimack valley, but I do not know of its occurrence 

 north of I^ake Winnipesaukee, and among the White Mountain 

 valleys, the Painted Tortoise {^Chrysemys picta) is the only spe- 

 cies I have ever seen. The Ribbon Snake ( Thanmophis saurita) 

 follows the valley bottoms at least as far up as Intervale, where 

 I have not infrequently found it. 



A number of more northern species may also be enumerated 

 as finding their southern breeding limit within the Transition 

 zone: Such are the following among the birds : Loon {Gavia 

 imber), Hairy Woodpecker {Dryobates villosus), Olive-sided 

 Flycatcher {Contopus borealis), Purple Finch {Carpodacus pui - 

 pureus) , Savanna Sparrow {Animodranius sandwichensis savan- 

 na). Swamp Sparrow {Melospiza georgiana)} , Blue-headed 

 Vireo {Vireo solitarius), Nashville Warbler {Helminthophila 

 rtibricapilla) , Black-throated Green Warbler {Dendroica virens), 

 Chickadee {Parus atricapiUics) , and Hermit Thrush {Hylocichla 

 guttata pallasii) . 



