2 2o Merriam on Birds of the Adirondack Region. 
34. Siurus naevius ( Bodd .) Coues. Common Water Thrush.— 
Rather rare summer resident. Have found it breeding near the “ Old 
Forge House” below First Lake. 
35. Siurus motacilla ( Vieillot ) Coues. Large-billed Water Thrush. 
— Strange as it may seem, several typical specimens of this southern bird 
have been killed about the southern end of Lake George, in Warren 
County.* 
36. Geothlypis Philadelphia ( Wilson ) Baird. Mourning War- 
bler. — Common summer resident, breeding chiefly in the dense growth 
of blackberry and raspberry bushes that spring up on nearly all the 
burned districts. 
37. Geothlypis trichas ( Linn .) Cabanis. Maryland Yellow- 
throat. — Tolerably common summer resident. 
38. Myiodioctes pusillus ( Wilson ) Bonafi. Black-capped Yellow 
Warbler. — Rare. Have seen it only during the migrations. 
39. Myiodioctes canadensis ( Linn .) Audubon. Canada Flycatch- 
ing Warbler. — Breeds abundantly. Found everywhere in suitable 
localities. 
40. Setophaga ruticilla (Linn.') Szvainson. Redstart. — Common 
summer resident. 
41. Vireosylvia olivacea (Linn.) Bonafi. Red-eyed Vireo. — Com- 
mon and noisy. 
42. Vireosylvia gilva ( Vieillot ) Cassin. Warbling Vireo. — Not 
common and only met with, so far as I am aware, about the borders of 
the great forest. 
43. Lanivireo flavifrons ( Vieillot ) Baird. Yellow-throated Vireo. 
— Breeds. Tolerably common. 
44. Lanivireo solitarius ( Vieillot ) Baird. Blue-headed Vireo. — 
Breeds plentifully in many places. 
45. Lanius borealis, Vieillot. Great Northern Shrike. — Toler- 
ably common during the fall, winter, and spring. Not known to breed, 
numerous “records” to the contrary notwithstanding — they all fit the 
next. 
46. Lanius ludovicianus excubitoroides (Swainson) Coues. White- 
rumped Shrike. — A rather common summer resident, in suitable 
localities, where it breeds. In a paper written nearly four years agof I 
narrated the occurrence of this bird in Lewis County, and called attention 
to the fact that the specimens killed here agree more closely with the 
western ( excubitoroides ) type than with the southern (ludovicianus). 
Since then they have steadily increased in numbers till now they breed 
throughout Lewis County and have extended their range into all con- 
genial spots within the Adirondack wilderness. Last summer (1880) 
Walter H. Merriam found it breeding on the South Branch of Ausable 
River, in Essex County, on the eastern or Lake Champlain side of the 
* Bull. Nut. Ornith. Club, Vol. I, No. 2, p. 117, April, 1880. 
f Published in Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. Ill, No. 2, pp. 52-56, April, 1878. 
