140
Lake Umbagog.
Great Island
1897.
June 11
(No 3)
notes varies from three to seven. One of the birds
established in the Staples farm woods just north of Great
Island (I heard both of these birds singing on the morning
of June 12th) usually gives only three notes but sometimes
raises the number to five. The other bird ordinarily gives
five and sometimes six. The bird near the Brown farm
east of Lakeside habitually has seven.
[margin]Song of
Cape May Warbler[/margin]
 The woods on Great Island are among the most
beautiful and interesting that I have ever seen in
this region. No lumbering has been down there for over
thirty years and, strange to say, there are no windfalls
and almost no fallen trees while even old crumbling
logs are scarce. Indeed the ground is almost everywhere
smooth, firm, free from holes or inequalities with but few
rocks and almost no undergrowth save yew which,
near the Lake shore, forms a broad, continuous belt
extending around the whole island. Further back
the land rises in gentle slopes and the center of the
island is fifty feet or more above the Lake and nearly
level over a large area forming a plateau with a
large swamp or bog covered with stunted spruces occupying
thirty or forty acres of the middle portion.
[margin]Forest growth
on Great
Island[/margin]
 The entire island is heavily wooded with fine old
timber many of the trees especially the spruces, hemlocks,
and yellow birches, being of the largest size. We found
one tree of the last-named species which had a girth
of 13 ft 6 inches a foot above the ground and tapered
but little for the next thirty feet upward. Its top,
however, had broken off & the trunk, although alive,
was not sound.