76 Summer Birds of the White Mountain Region. [ February, 
yet practically among the hills, in many places covered with large 
tracts of genuine old New Hampshire forests, and overrun with 
brooks, contains thousands of birds in summer, and these birds be- 
long partly to the Canadian fauna. Therefore this article has 
been written partly to illustrate the distribution of that fauna, 
but partly, however, for other purposes. When I first came to 
Bethlehem, two years ago, I found but one pair of robins in the 
township, but Iam glad to see that there are now several pairs, 
one of which, I have been told, built their nest a little while ago 
on the top of a long pole, which stood without support in an 
open hen-yard. Several robins have retired from the village and 
built their nests in the woods and haunts which seem more ap- 
propriate to the other thrushes, of which the Swainson’s thrushes 
are by far the most common, and correspond to the familiar wood 
thrushes of Massachusetts. The olive-backed thrush sings very 
sweetly, very much like the wood thrush, but not so finely nor 
quite so exquisitely ; picks up insects of various kinds, as food, 
among the branches of the trees in the thick woods, particularly 
woods drained by Swamps or streams, and builds its nest in young 
spruces, from six to ten feet above the ground, laying in these 
three or four eggs, which are much like those of the scarlet tan- 
ager. As with many other birds, it often rears, when undis- 
turbed, two broods of young in the course of the summer. Her- 
mit and Wilson’s thrushes are. not at all common, and I have 
met with but a very few in Bethlehem, especially of the former. 
I do not think that I have ever seen any brown thrushes. 
I have seen one or two cat-birds, but these latter, as is the 
case with the blue-birds familiar to me at home, are to be ranked 
among strangers in this place. I have been greatly pleased to 
meet a pair of golden-crowned wrens here, which inhabit a large 
tract of white birches (the home of chickadees). I found them 
with a family of young in August, last year, as well as without 
young in July, this year, though I have not yet been able to find 
their nest. Chickadees, brown creepers, and both kinds of nut- 
hatches are summer residents, as house wrens also are occasion- 
these latter, and I have found a great many in the valleys here, 
though I inferred from a remark of Dr. Brewer’s, before coming 
to Bethlehem, that they inhabited only the sides of Mount Wash- 
ington, and like altitudes. These birds are ever busy about the 
fallen trees and brushwood of the forests, and from the top of 
some dead limb often pour out a shrill, hurried song of wonder- 
