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feet to the upper limit of small tree growth at 4,800 to 5,000 

 feet, though not at this time often seen above the timber, which 

 extends to some 4,500 feet on the southern exposures. South of 

 the great range, I have observed it in summer on Mt. Carrigain 

 and on Mt. Hancock, and it is to be looked for on the higher 

 peaks of the Sandwich range. In late summer, small flocks are 

 frequently met with trooping through the evergreen forest and 

 usually accompanied by a few Black-poll and Myrtle Warblers 

 and a pair or two of Red-breasted Nuthatches or Golden-crowned 

 Kinglets. These flocks in their wanderings reach the extreme 

 upper limit of scrub growth on the mountains, and I have ob- 

 served them on such occasions at Madison Hut, on the west 

 side of Mt. Adams, and at the summit of Carter Dome (4,860 

 ft.) . They move downward into the valleys as late fall and win- 

 ter approach. Thus Mr. C. J. Maynard ('72) found them quite 

 common in late October, 1869, in the heavily wooded mountain 

 valleys at Errol. Frank Bolles ('93b) noted them repeatedly 

 about Chocorua in December, single birds being usually seen, 

 though once he mentions a flock of four on December 226. ; he 

 also mentions one at Whitten Pond on November 7th. Mr. G. 

 C. Shattuck has twice observed the bird near Albany Intervale 

 during the last of December, 1900, and again on February 17th, 

 of the following year. Doubtless however, a large part of the 

 birds remain throughout the winter at high altitudes, and I 

 have observed one or two at about 3,000 feet on the Carter 

 Notch trail during the last of December, 1900, after severe 

 weather. Rarely, straggling birds reach the country to the 

 south of the White Mountains in fall or winter ; thus Mr. C. F. 

 Goodhue ('85) records one shot at Webster in November, 1875, 

 and two seen there in November, 1878, and I am told of two 

 specimens taken near Mt. Monadnock in winter, by Mr. H. L,, 

 Piper. Mr. A. A. Baton, of Seabrook, writes me of one taken 

 February 15, 1890, in Salisbury, Mass., but a few yards from 

 the state line. 



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