8 PROCEEDINGS MANCHESTER INSTITUTE 



Indigo Bunting, Scarlet Tanager, Cedar Waxwing, Red-eyed 

 Vireo, (ten to twelve pairs), Blue-headed Vireo, (four or five 

 pairs), Winter Wren, Brown Creeper, White-breasted Nuthatch, 

 Chickadee, Veery, Olive-backed Thrush and Hermit Thrush, 

 (four or five pairs each), and Robin. Not all of these species 

 are represented every season, but the exceptions are few. I 

 have not found other pieces of woodland as rich, perhaps, in 

 their warbler life as this. Still, the warblers are everywhere 

 abundant in their appropriate haunts. There are nineteen 

 resident species in the region. 



All the mountains remain in large part forest-clad in spite 

 of the rapid cutting of timber which has been going on. But 

 the thick spruce and fir growth have to a great extent disap- 

 peared in extensive sections of the forests and only thinned 

 woods remain. However, forest fires have been avoided almost 

 altogether on the mountain sides, so that the slopes, where they 

 had been laid somewhat bare by the lumbermen, have already 

 come to be partially covered by young growth, thus preventing 

 an outward appearance of bareness, although they are most 

 seriously stripped. The forests of the Jefferson valley have not 

 fared so well. A fire which ran extensively through them in 

 June, 1903, left little of a true forest np.ture standing. And the 

 farming industry of the community has been extending over 

 these burnt lands, reclaiming them, and bringing them under 

 cultivation. 



Thus two changes have been steadily going on by man's 

 agency within the territory under consideration during the 

 dozen years in which the bird-life has been studied, namely, the 

 continuous cutting of the forests on the mountain slopes and 

 the logging and destruction by fire of the forests in the Jefferson 

 valley, followed by the reclaiming of the lands for pasturage 

 and cultivation. The first named change has resulted undoubt- 

 edly in the decrease of such species as the Canada Spruce Par- 

 tridge, the Arctic Three-toed and the Three-toed Woodpeckers, 

 the Canada Jay, the Winter Wren, the Brown Creeper, the 

 Red-breasted Nuthatch, and the Hudsonian Chickadee. I^arge 



