General Notes. 
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In the portion of Jefferson County where the notes were taken, the 
country is nearly level, with gentle undulations, and is traversed by Bark 
and Rock Rivers. The streams make a sharp line between prairies and 
openings on one side and heavy hard and soft-wood timber on the other. 
Marshes trend along the streams, and shallow reedy ponds are common. 
Compared with the vicinity of Ithaca, the farms are larger, the houses less 
numerous, the orchards smaller, the woods and groves larger, and but 
few trees stand in the fields. 
Route 1 led from a point about half a mile north of Bark River out 
across cultivated fields. Routes 2 and 3 each led east from Rock River, 
north of Jefferson, alternately through pieces t of heavy timber and 
across dry cultivated fields. Route 4 led from the Crayfish west upon the 
prairie southwest of Aztelan, traversing dry treeless fields and leading- 
through two small groves. Route 5 led from, the University buildings 
west across the valley, leading through a pasture, through the north end 
of the city, through the swamp, and up the railroad, bordered on one side 
by cultivated fields, and by tangled thickets on the other. Route 6 led di- 
rectly east from the campus to Varna, and then southwest along the rail- 
road. On this trip only cultivated fields were crossed and one small piece 
of woods traversed. Route 7 led up the valley from Ithaca along the east 
side, and then across to Enfield Falls. On this tramp we passed in- turn 
along the railroad, bordered with small scattering thickets on both sides, 
across the inlet through low fields, and then past cultivated fields and 
small pieces of woods. Route 8 lay ten miles east of Ithaca, and led from 
McLean off to the southeast of Dryden, and then through Dryden to Free- 
ville. A branch of Fall Creek was crossed twice, and, with the exception 
of a small marsh near Freeville, only cultivated fields and small pieces of 
wood were passed. 
NAME. 
Turdus migratorius . 
Turdus fuscescens . 
Mimus carolinensis 
Sialia sialis .... 
Parus atricapillus . 
Sitta carolinensis . 
Troglodytes aedon 
Eremophila alpestris . 
Cistothorus stellaris . 
Dendrceca Eestiva . 
Geothlypis trichas 
Setophaga ruticilla 
Pyranga rubra . 
Hirundo horreorum . 
Tachycineta bicolor . 
Petrochelidon lunifrons 
Cotyle riparia . 
Progne purpurea . 
Ampelis cedrorum 
Vireo olivaceus 
Vireo gilvus .... 
ROUTES. 
