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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Middle 
  Saranac 
  lake 
  and 
  Pollywog 
  pond, 
  and 
  one 
  was 
  heard 
  singing 
  on 
  

   the 
  shore 
  of 
  Lake 
  Placid. 
  A 
  family 
  of 
  Migrant 
  shrikes 
  was 
  found 
  near 
  

   Long 
  Lake 
  and 
  I 
  notice 
  an 
  instance 
  of 
  its 
  breeding 
  in 
  Essex 
  county, 
  on 
  the 
  

   Ausable 
  river, 
  recorded 
  by 
  Dr 
  Merriam. 
  

  

  Seventeen 
  species 
  of 
  wood 
  warblers 
  were 
  found 
  nesting 
  in 
  the 
  region, 
  

   but 
  neither 
  the 
  Tennessee 
  warbler 
  which 
  was 
  found 
  by 
  Roosevelt 
  and 
  

   Minot 
  in 
  Franklin 
  county, 
  and 
  by 
  Merriam 
  in 
  the 
  western 
  Adirondacks, 
  

   nor 
  a 
  single 
  specimen 
  of 
  the 
  Bay-breasted, 
  Cape 
  May 
  or 
  Wilson 
  warbler, 
  

   which 
  we 
  had 
  hoped 
  to 
  secure, 
  could 
  be 
  found. 
  The 
  Black 
  -throated 
  green, 
  

   Black 
  -throated 
  blue. 
  Myrtle, 
  and 
  Magnolia 
  warblers, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  the 
  Oven- 
  

   bird, 
  were 
  common 
  and 
  generally 
  distributed. 
  Slightly 
  less 
  common 
  and 
  

   less 
  generally 
  distributed 
  were 
  the 
  Blackburnian, 
  Canadian, 
  Chestnut- 
  

   sided, 
  Mourning, 
  and 
  Black 
  and 
  White 
  warblers 
  and 
  Redstart. 
  Common 
  

   in 
  the 
  swamps 
  were 
  the 
  Water-thrush 
  and 
  Northern 
  yellow-throat 
  up 
  to 
  

   an 
  altitude 
  of 
  2750 
  feet. 
  The 
  Mourning 
  warbler 
  was 
  commonest 
  in 
  the 
  

   burnt 
  tracts 
  which 
  were 
  grown 
  over 
  with 
  a 
  tangle 
  of 
  weeds 
  and 
  bushes. 
  

   Chestnut 
  -sided 
  and 
  Canadian 
  warblers 
  seemed 
  to 
  prefer 
  the 
  slashings 
  up 
  

   to 
  an 
  altitude 
  of 
  3000 
  feet. 
  Nests 
  of 
  the 
  Black 
  and 
  White 
  warbler 
  were 
  

   found 
  by 
  Mr 
  Achilles 
  at 
  Elk 
  lake 
  and 
  we 
  noted 
  old 
  birds 
  feeding 
  their 
  young 
  

   near 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  Indian 
  head. 
  The 
  Blackpoll 
  warbler 
  was 
  found 
  nesting 
  

   near 
  the 
  summit 
  of 
  Indian 
  head 
  by 
  Mr 
  Bradstreet 
  and 
  old 
  birds 
  were 
  

   observed 
  carrying 
  food 
  to 
  their 
  young 
  on 
  the 
  Geological 
  cobble, 
  Bartlett 
  

   ridge, 
  Marcy 
  trail 
  2500 
  feet, 
  Colden 
  trail. 
  Elk 
  lake 
  road 
  2000 
  feet, 
  and 
  also 
  

   near 
  the 
  summit 
  of 
  Skylight, 
  Marcy, 
  Haystack 
  and 
  Whiteface. 
  The 
  Parula 
  

   warbler 
  was 
  found 
  in 
  full 
  song 
  at 
  Boreas 
  pond. 
  Elk 
  lake 
  and 
  the 
  Upper 
  

   x\usable, 
  but 
  the 
  nest 
  was 
  not 
  located. 
  The 
  Yellow 
  warbler 
  was 
  seen 
  only 
  

   at 
  Beede's 
  near 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  Keene 
  Valley. 
  

  

  The 
  Catbird 
  was 
  found 
  nesting 
  at 
  St 
  Huberts 
  and 
  Boreas 
  camp. 
  The 
  

   Brown 
  thrasher 
  was 
  said 
  to 
  occur 
  at 
  Elk 
  lake, 
  but 
  we 
  saw 
  no 
  specimens. 
  

   One 
  family 
  of 
  House 
  wrens 
  was 
  located 
  at 
  Elizabethtown. 
  The 
  Winter 
  

   wren 
  was 
  generalh^ 
  distributed 
  in 
  the 
  woods, 
  and 
  broods 
  of 
  \'oung 
  were 
  

   frequently 
  seen 
  to 
  an 
  altitude 
  of 
  3900 
  feet. 
  The 
  Brown 
  creeper 
  was 
  about 
  

  

  