78 Summer Birds of the White Mountain Region. [ February, 
contrary, quite commonly inhabit the cooler woods, where I have 
often watched the male catching insects and caterpillars with 
great dexterity, sometimes collecting a dozen or more in his bill, 
doubtless to feed his mate or young with. The Maryland yellow- 
throat, however, is by far the most common warbler at Bethle- 
hem, frequenting woods and roadsides alike, never shy but always 
watchful ; whilst the equally familiar “+ red starts ” are also toler- 
ably common, and I often hear them singing in company with 
others of their family in the depths of the forests. Though I 
have seen no water thrushes here, yet in the deep woods, since 
there are no dry groves near the houses, I occasionally hear the 
familiar chatter of the wagtail (S. awrocapillus), generally near 
some water-course, however, rather than in dry woods. 
Whenever I return from a long walk through the haunts of 
these various warblers which I have just enumerated, I invaria- 
bly see many cedar-birds on the roadsides and in the orchards, 
and when I get to the village I can always see there about 
me all the swallows, including the so-called chimney swallows 
(which cannot, however, by modern classification claim any near 
relationship to the true Hirundinide). Of these swallows the 
sand martins have established themselves at a sandbank near 
a friend reports having seen) have but just made their appearance 
in the township (for the first time, so far as I know, though per- 
haps one or two pairs may have spent the last season here, un- 
noticed by me). About the village both red-eyed and warbling 
vireos pass the summer (of the latter only one pair) ; and in the 
woods I often hear the cheerful warble of the red-eyed and soli- 
tary vireo, the latter of which is very rare, whereas the former is 
quite as common as about Boston, and constantly reminds me of a — 
more familiar neighborhood. Grateful for the society of these 
vireos, Iam thankful that this place is not pestered with their 
cruel and destructive relatives, the murderous shrikes, of which 
I have seen no bloody traces as yet. 
The finches are well represented at Bethlehem, both by species 
familiar to us near Boston in summer, and by others. Perhaps 
the most common representatives are the goldfinches, which fre- 
juent pastures, roadsides, and gardens, sometimes, by the way, 
not laying their eggs until the second or third week of August, 
since in Massachusetts they habitually build their nest very late in 
the season, and here all bird sgenerally breed two, three, or four 
