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often, the Indians cut and burn over sections containing one's rarest 

 finds and in this way many of my best stations have been destroyed. 

 The state botanist plans a trip here for collecting as there is un- 

 doubtedly a rich field not thoroughly examined. 



Some plants so common in New England are rare here, for instance, 

 Houstonia caerulea, Drosera, Cornus canadensis. Spiraea tomentosa and 

 salicifolia. But the woods are full of hepaticas, yellow violets, chiefly 

 pubescens, some rotundifolia, Canada, spurred and striata, Podophyl- 

 lum, both Dicentras. Cardamine bulbosa, Dentaria laciniata and 

 diphylla, Collinsonia, etc. I have never seen so much Caltha palustris. 



My time is so limited for exploration that I feel there is yet much 

 undiscovered. 



Bird life is abundant. There are now several pairs of cardinal 

 grosbeaks between here and Buffalo. T^'o males were recently shot 

 for the Buffalo Museum. I have seen four at one time, year after 

 year in the same location, and this season found two nests of the same 

 pair. For resident warblers we have, abundantly, hooded, chestnut- 

 sided, magnolia, blackburnian. oven-bird, Louisiana water thrush, 

 parula, mourning, yellow, Maryland yellow-throat, redstart. The black- 

 throated blue and black-throated green nest sparingly, also the Canada, 

 rarely the Nashville. We have many rose-breasted grosbeaks and 

 scarlet tanagers, chewinks, thrashers, wood thrushes, veeries, indigo 

 buntings. Last season I found the nest of a parula partly built in a 

 dead limb of a pine, which was broken off and hanging in the tree. 

 I watched the female building while the male bird sang close by, but 

 alas! the limb was blown dow^n before the nest was completed. I 

 have found nests of hooded, magnolia, oven-bird, chestnut-sided, black- 

 throated blue, Louisiana water thrush. Last season I found the 

 marsh hawk's nest with five eggs, all of which hatched. In migra- 

 tion we have yellow palm, palm, rarely the golden-winged and cerulean 

 warblers, usually several Connecticut warblers, and once I have seen 

 a blue grosbeak and a Philadelphia vireo and almost yearly the Lincoln 

 sparrow. 



The tufted titmouse has been taken a few miles away. The red- 

 bellied woodpecker is rare but reported occasionally, also the pileated. 

 A bald eagle or two appear by the creek rarely. 



I have found the nests of alder flycatcher, migrant shrike, rough- 

 winged swallow. 



