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Peterborough, New Hampshire.
1898.
July 5 to
Aug. 15
(No. 7)
there but the pickerel, strange to say, are never caught
(or even seen) excepting through the ice in winter. What
becomes of them in summer is a mystery. They cannot
leave the pond at any season for there is no inlet and
there is a dam across the shallow outlet.
[margin]Cunningham
Pond[/margin]
  I should have noted before that this pond is said
to cover a surface of about fifty acres. The water is
clear and nowhere of very great depth.
  Still another excellent place for birds is at the
head of the brook valley where the old stage road
passes the base of Pack Monadnock through a gap
between the range of hills that bound our view to the
eastward. Here there are more spruce-grown pastures
as well as some extensive and rather scrubby mixed woods
[delete][?][/delete] covering the rocky sides of the mountain and
here I found Hermits, White-throats, Kinglets, & Magnolia,
Myrtle & Black and Yellow Warblers, as well as most of
the other species which occur on or near Ben Mere farm
but nothing that was not noted there. Nor did Mr. Deane
add anything to our list when he drove to the top
of Pack Monadnock (said to be 2400 feet above the sea) on
July 24th but along the whole extent of its base and
gently ascending crest he found Juncos in abundance.
He also saw Robins and Grass Finches [delete]there[/delete], near the
summit. 