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overlook the bird's presence. Its songs, however, are quite dis- 

 tinctive, being repeated more hurriedly and nervously than the 

 Robin's, with a somewhat harsher quality, nor do they have the 

 higher and lower modulations characterizing the Robin's songs, nor 

 the squeaking interpolations. Tihe Tanager travels over more ground 

 than the Robin in its morning recitals, for the latter sits in one place 

 and sings repeatedly; but the Tanager moves restlessly from one 

 station to another and from one tree to another, often for a con- 

 siderable distance. In the Barber Point neighborhood a pair of 

 Scarlet Tanagers nested in the dry open woods on a ridge from which 

 the conifers had been lumbered many years before. The site of the 

 nest was a drooping horizontal branch in a large maple, on a fork 

 about ten feet from the trunk and about twenty feet from the 

 ground. The chip-chuur of the male was heard when he was at a 

 considerable distance from the nest, and by slowly following his 

 call as he finally went to the nest, I was enabled to discover his home. 

 Both parents were feeding the nestlings. 



* Indigo-bird. Passerina cyanea (Linn.) 



Length 5.4. Male deep blue, darker on head ; female brown above, 

 faintly streaked. 



The Indigo-bird was not seen by me at Cranberry Lake in 1916. 

 This species should become more common with the extension of the 

 clearings, especially those with the agricultural or domestic associa- 

 tions, as it is one of the birds noticeably enlarging their range 

 within the general limits of definite vegetation associations. 



Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Zamelodia ludomciana (Linn.) 



Length 8. Head, throat, back, wings and tail black; lower parts, rump 

 and wing-bars white ; under wing 'coverts and breast rose-red; female 

 streaked brown above, whitish below, with a white line over eye. 



The Rose-breasted Grosbeak dwells in clearings, preferably in the 

 shrubbery and sapling growth about old mill sites, and on the bor- 

 ders of burns near streams. This species has little to do with mature 

 woodlands, and berry patches are the most potent factor in its occur- 

 rence in the Adirondack Park, at least during the fruit season, for 

 it is as eager in its attendance on these as are the Robin and the 

 Catbird. At Barber Point this grosbeak nested in the Partial and 

 Plabitation Clearings, along with the Catbird and other birds of the 

 bush. In the early spring it haunts the foliage of maple and beech, 

 singing, hunting for insects, and eating the tender buds. After the 

 song season, when the elders have charge of the juveniles on the 

 wing, the sharp chick call of this Grosbeak will often be heard. 



Lincoln's Sparrow. Melospiza lincolni lincolni (Aud.) 



Length 5.7. Grayish brown streaked with black and chestnut ; center of 

 crown a gray stripe; buff band across breast; sides black-streaked, belly 

 white. 



A small colony of Lincoln's Sparrows inhabited the Bog, where 

 perhaps four pairs were nesting, but it was not met with elsewhere. 



