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knoll, with an attractive dooryard in front along the highway 
(Fig. 19), and a scrub-growth hillside back of it sloping down to 
the head of Little Long Pond, one of the Kanahwauke Chain of 
Lakes (Fig. 20). On the western side of the lot (Fig. 21), which 
comprises about five acres, a wet weather stream course supports 
a growth of native trees, and along the remainder of its way to 
the pond and brooklet feeds a swamp thicket of undergrowth of 
representative composition. The Guest House premises as a whole 
comprise three bits of attractive bird habitats, the front door- 
yard (Fig. 22) with the adjacent open ravine, the dry upper por- 
tion of the knoll below the house, and the swamp thicket at the 
foot of the knoll overhanging the lake. The three are so closely 
associated in the small area that each is a part of the others and 
its value is inseparable from the whole. 
The neighboring features reinforce the attractiveness of the 
Guest House locality as a bird resort. On the north, in almost 
impending nearness, looms the rock-terraced, forested face of Hem- 
lock Hill, meeting the Tuxedo Drive at the edge of Little Long 
Pond, and rearing its wooded ledges five hundred feet above the 
water, or about thirteen hundred feet above the Hudson tide level. 
At the rear of the Guest House lot, the head of Little Long Pond 
offers a desirable margin for swamp and water birds. The Pond 
is one of a group of three splendid lakelets occupying a broad 
irregular trough formed by magnificent wooded mountains. In 
fact, the Guest House lot is an ideal location at the head of a 
beautiful valley, and hence merely an incidental bit of a region 
especially attractive to birds. 
Vegetational Features. The front dooryard of the Guest House 
premises, surrounded as it is by the diversified forest, mountain, 
and water features of the general habitat, has the additional attrac- 
tions of ornamental and orchard trees, placed with artistic wild- 
wood effect. Furthermore, several native trees growing on the 
house site have been left standing through orifices in the front 
and rear porches of the building. Among the trees contributing 
to this delightful bird resort are black cherry, apple, chestnut- 
oak, small red cedars, white oaks, pignut hickory, walnut, sugar 
