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vegetation; Kingbird, in low bushes near the pond shore; Cedar 
W axwing, near the water margins ; Indigo Bunting, feeding young 
in fruit-bearing bushes; White-breasted Nuthatch, gleaning with 
young in pond-shore woods ; Worm-eating Warbler, feeding young 
on the rock ledges facing the camps; Blue Jay and Crow, hill- 
sides near pond ; Wood Pewee, calling in nearby woodlands ; 
Hooded Warbler, singing near the camps; Chestnut-sided Warbler, 
singing near the camps; Bed-shouldered Hawk, in soaring flight; 
Baltimore Oriole, its nesting season now over, calling along the 
swamp woods margins; Black and White Warbler, feeding young 
near the camps ; Redstart, feeding young in pond-shore woodlands ; 
Chipping Sparrow, singing and nesting near the camps; Broad- 
winged Hawk, soaring over hillside woods. 
Summit Lake. This lake is located in the north-western quarter 
of the region under consideration, on the road from Highland 
Falls to Arden. The locality has less of the wildwood aspect and 
more of the domestic features in its vegetation than elsewhere 
in the region, and shows more effects of the touch of cultivation. 
A casual survey of the trees included the black locust, arbor vitae, 
several species of oaks, butternut, maples, chestnut, dogwood, beech, 
hickories, tulip tree, linden or basswood, elm, fir, tamarack, buck- 
eye, silver maple, blue beech, black cherry, with saplings of alder, 
birch, aspen, sassafras, witch hazel, and shrubs of sweet fern, 
laurel, huckleberry, wild grape, elderberry, etc. My observations 
are quite incomplete for this locality, as it was not until August 3 
that I visited there, with notes as follows: Bed-eyed Vireo, in 
subdued songs; Song Sparrow, feeding young; Towhee, singing 
in scrub growth near the lake shore; Goldfinch, in flight-song 
and nesting activities; Indigo Bunting, singing; Barn Swallow, a 
colony at the camp barn; Chipping Sparrow, feeding young; King- 
bird, margin of garden ; Robin, active in the fruit shrubbery ; 
Field Sparrow, in the open bushy areas; Bed-winged Blackbird, 
in the lake-shore vegetation ; Black-billed Cuckoo, in the camp 
woodlands; House Wren, scolding with young in the shrubbery; 
Least Flycatcher, adults with young lately a-wing ; Orchard Oriole, 
scolding in margin of open garden area; Crow, calling in wood- 
