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THE OOLOGIST 



dead and standing trees in the back 

 part of the flow, but it is back from 

 the flow nearly a quarter of a mile in 

 the high land, hard wood timber. The 

 Heronry was not visited during the 

 past summer until July fourth, and by 

 this time only a few young birds were 

 left in the nests and these were near- 

 ly full grown. The birds picked out 

 all the large birches, beeches and 

 maples, for nesting purposes, and 

 sometimes there would be the three 

 or four nests in a single tree. At 

 least twenty-five pair of these birds 

 are occupying the Heronry at the 

 present time. 



Another interesting feature of the 

 lake is the nesting of gavia imber, the 

 Loon. As a rule, a person can not 

 find the lake, especially in this state, 

 where six or seven nests of this 

 species can be located in a season, and 

 this can be said of Cranberry Lake. 

 This magnificent diver is very shy, 

 but if one is careful, the life history 

 of this bird can be studied here at an 

 advantage. 



Probably the characteristic land 

 birds of this region are the White- 

 throated Sparrow, Slate-colored Junco, 

 Yellow-breast Sapsucker, and the Red- 

 breasted Nuthatch. In nearly every 

 place these species can be located, al- 

 though each has its special locality to 

 its liking. For instance, the White- 

 throated Sparrow may be heard 

 throughout the months of June and 

 July at almost any time, singing their 

 plaintive "peebody," "pee-body," "pee- 

 body," hence they get the name of the 

 "pee-body" bird. 



These Sparrows are characteristic 

 of the burns and open brush country. 

 Then again in the wooded districts, 

 especially among the conifers, the pre- 

 dominating bird note is the "yank" 

 "yank" of the Red-breasted Nuthatch. 

 This note can be distinguished from 

 that of the White-breasted Nuthatch 



in that it is shorter and lower pitched. 



The Adirondacks are rich with the 

 warbler family and this is especially 

 so around the summer camp. The 

 warblers actually identified during the 

 past summer were the Black and 

 White, Yellow, Black-throated Blue, 

 Magnol a Chestnut-sided, Black poll, 

 Blackburnian, Black-throated Green, 

 Oven Bird, Mourning, Maryland Yel- 

 low-throated, Canadian, and the Amer- 

 ican Redstart. Other species are 

 known to be here but these were the 

 only ones positively identified. 



One of the rare finds of the summer 

 was the finding of a nest of the 

 Mourning Warbler. The nest of the 

 beautiful, skulking ground warbler 

 was found near the camp on the edge 

 of a small clump of saplings, and was 

 placed in the forks of a maple sapling 

 about four feet above the ground. The 

 young had apparently just left the 

 nest for the parents were busily feed- 

 ing them close by. 



Nests of the Magnolia Warbler were 

 found on June fifteenth and twentieth, 

 the Chestnut-sided was found on the 

 fifteenth and other nests .of the same 

 species were found quite common dur- 

 ing the later part of June. Maryland 

 Yellow-throat and American Redstarts 

 were breeding commonly in June. 



Other nests that were actually 

 found and examined during the sum- 

 mer with date of finding are as fol- 

 lows: On June 13, Slate-colored Jun- 

 co, June 14, Cat bird and Rosebreast- 

 ed Grosebeak, June 6, Song Sparrow, 

 American Robin, House Wren, and 

 Bank Swallow, June 17, White-throat- 

 ed Sparrow, June 22, Red-wing Black- 

 bird, June 25. Yellow-breasted Sap- 

 sucker and Barn Swallow, July 3, 

 Phoebe, July 23, Red-eyed Vireo, July 

 15, Cedar Bird. The above mentioned 

 nests all contained eggs. 



The following young birds were 

 noted either in nests or just out: Red- 



