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that extensive district well known to sportsmen as “ John Brown’s 
Tract,” which is embraced in the “Great Adirondack Wilderness,” 
of the northeastern portion of the State. This eastern district is 
characterized by a sandy soil, which supports an immense forest, 
chiefly of coniferous trees. In the northwestern part of the county 
is another large tract, called “ Tug Hill,” lying between Lake On- 
tario and the Adirondack Wilderness, which is characterized by the 
same class of forest-trees and the same general physical features. 
The eastern, or Adirondack, region is truly Canadian in its fauna ; 
the western partially so ; while the valley of the Black River and 
the middle portion of the county lying west of it is strictly Alle- 
ghanian. 
In the eastern (Adirondack) district are found breeding Turdus 
pallasi, T. swainsoni, Sitta canadensis, Anorthura troglodytes var. 
hyemalis, Dendroeca ccerulescens, D. coronata, D. blackburnice, D. 
maculosa , Geothlypis Philadelphia, Myiodioctes canadensis, Loxia 
leucoptera , L. curvirostra var. americana, Zonotricliia albicollis, 
Junco hyemalis, Corvus corax, Perisoreus canadensis, Contopus 
borealis, Hylotomus pileatus, Picoides arcticus, P. americamis, 
Sphyrapicus varius, Tetrao canadensis, Ardea herodias, Colymbus 
torquatus, and many other less characteristic species. 
At my request, Mr. A. Jenings Dayan, one of our most careful, 
enthusiastic, and conscientious collectors, sends me the following 
notes concerning a few species found in the middle (Alleghanian) dis- 
trict of the county. When not otherwise stated, his observations 
pertain to the town of Lyon’s Falls, in the Black River Valley. 
“ Eremophila alpestris. Horned Lark. — A tolerably common spring- 
migrant ; a few breed. Dr. C. P. Kirley of Lowville [middle district] 
has kindly given me this note on its breeding : ‘ I first observed Eremo- 
phila alpestris July 16, 1876, when-I shot one two-thirds grown, and saw 
the parents. In the same locality, June 24, 1876, I noticed a pair of old 
birds, and on searching for their nest, I found it not more than eighteen 
inches from the main road. It contained three unfledged young. Since 
then I have both seen and taken it during the breeding season.’ 
“Helminthophaga peregrina. Tennessee Warbler. — I have taken 
two of this species (May 19 and 23, 1877), the only record of its occur- 
rence in this locality. 
“ Collurio ludovicianus [var. excubitoroides, see below]. Logger- 
head Shrike. — I shot a fine adult male September 24, 1877* Through 
the kindness of Mr. A. M. Church, I have examined a nest and five eggs 
of this bird, taken here May 11, 1877. He secured the female as she left 
the nest. 
