Relation of Summer Birds to Western Adirondack Forest 475 



bellied Sapsuckers frolicked in this tree top and another near by, 

 frequently alighting near the hawk as they swung back and forth 

 from one tree to another. A Wood Pewee was also foraging out 

 from this same tree, and a Robin crossed the area, stopping in the 

 tree near the hawk without apparent fear. After a while the hawk 

 was startled by the report of a small rifle; it aroise, and began 

 soaring until it was lost high in the upper air. The Broad-winged 

 Hawk takes the place in this region of the Red-tailed and Red- 

 shouldered Hawks, neither of which belongs to the fauna about 

 Craniberry Lake. Other absentees are the Goshawk, Sparrow Hawk, 

 Cooper's Hawk and the Sharp-shinned ; and the Marsh Hawk was 

 seen but once. More to be expected, but not seen, were the Fish 

 Hawk and the Duck Hawk. 



Canada Ruffed Grouse. Bonasa umbellus togata (Linn.) 

 The Canadian variety of the Ruffed Grouse was met with chiefly 

 in the borders of the woods, or in the open parts of the Burn, 

 or on the edges of the clearings. In illuminated open bogs this 

 grouse likes to feed in the patches of jewelweed, where it eats 

 the succulent stems. Ordinarily in the fruit season it resorts to 

 the Burn, where there are open spots of burned duff and soil, with 

 blueberry and raspberry bushes for ready cover and convenient 

 foraging. The broods are running about early in June, and there- 

 after the female will be found in attendance upon the youngsters 

 as they learn the art of self-dependence in the wilderness. The 

 drumming of the male is heard well into the summer, long after 

 the young are under the care of the mother bird, or at least in the 

 early days of July. 



The Spruce Partridge was not found, and is now very rare in all 

 parts of the Adirondacks. 



Spotted Sandpiper. Actitis macularia (Linn.) 



Length 7.5. Brownish gray above with a faint greenish lustre, thickly 

 spotted below. 



The Spotted Sandpiper lives along the low inlets at various places 

 on Cranberry Lake, preferably where there are stretches of sand 

 beach with sparse bushes and shrubs as a background. A pair or 

 two in each suitable locality is about all one finds in the Cranberry 

 Lake district. This sandpiper seems to be restricted to the shores 

 of lakes and ponds. 



Solitary Sandpiper. Hclodromas solitaries solitaries (Wils.) 



Length 8.5. Neck and breast streaked ; sides barred ; tail white, barred 

 with black; belly white. 



The Solitary Sandpiper was met with along the brook, where 

 shallow pools are caused by the level stretches being crowded with 

 alder growth, and is not often seen on the sand and pebble beaches. 

 This sandpiper was not noted until early in August, and probably 

 does not maintain a summer residence in the region. 



