ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 
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several other birds of the Canadian Fanna, on Mount Monadnock, 
New Hampshire, within fifteen miles of the Massachusetts State line. 
Throughout the White Mountains of New Hampshire they are 
everywhere common during the summer, but it is not until we 
reach the latitude of the Umbagog Lakes, in Western Maine, that 
we find them evenly distributed over high and low country alike. 
In this region summer succeeds winter so quickly that there is 
almost no spring. Thus when I reached Upton on the 25th of 
May, 1876, I found that the lakes had broken up but four days 
previously ; not a leaf had unfolded, even in the most sheltered 
places, and snow lay in large masses everywhere in the hollows and 
on northern exposures. Yet many species of Warblers had already 
arrived, and among them the subject of the present sketch was well 
represented. 
They kept closely about the buildings, and although the day w’as 
warm, maintained an almost perfect silence. Dozens at a time 
were hopping about the manure-heap behind the stables and around 
the sink-spout, while all showed a certain apprehensiveness of man- 
ner, as if they feared the issue of their temerity in penetrating into 
so bleak and dreary a region. Taking a short walk into the woods, 
I found them untenanted, save by a few" Titmice, Woodpeckers, and 
some of the earlier Sparrows. But in the course of the next week 
w'onderful changes took place. The birches first, afterwards the 
maples, beech-trees, and poplars, put on a feathery drapery of the 
most delicate green. The shad-bush i^Amelancliier canadensis) and 
the “ moose-wood ” {Cormis circinata) became white with clustering 
blossoms, and looked at a distance like fleecy summer-clouds en- 
tangled among the trees. Underfoot, beautiful trilliums of both 
the purple (Trillium erectum) and wiiite (^T. grandijloruni) species, 
were conspicuous among a host of other wild-flowers. Bees hummed 
among the blossoms, and butterflies flitted airily^through the forest 
glades. Everything was fresh, lovely, and suggestive of the calm, 
peaceful sccurit}'' of summer. Thus in one week were consummated 
changes that, farther south, are often extended through nearly 
thrice the time. All this wUile the birds had kept ample pace with 
the advance of the season. Hundreds were daily arriving, passing 
on, or settling into their accustomed summer-haunts, and the woods 
fairly rang with the first burst of their melodj''. During the next 
week s\ll the lYarblers, and most of the smaller birds generally, 
were occupied in pairing and constructing their nests.- Then came 
