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rather scrubby growth of chestnut-oak, maple, scrub oaks, birch, 
scrub pine, with laurel everywhere, huckleberry, and other native 
ground cover. Taking my observations in order, I noted on various 
occasions along the trail and on the mountain crest, the Oven-bird, 
singing at all localities, and even more numerous toward the crest ; 
Hooded Warbler, singing well up the mountain; Redstart, singing 
to the top; Red-eyed Vireo, singing to the top; Towhee, calling and 
active to the top; Chestnut-sided Warbler, singing and active in all 
bushy openings ; Worm-eating Warbler, singing and feeding young 
to the top; Wood Rewee, calling partially up the mountain; Scarlet 
Tanager, singing on the mountain crest; Ruffed Grouse, in the 
maple and birch thickets on the crest ; Flicker, calling on the upper 
slopes ; Grow, active on the lower slopes ; Black and White Warbler, 
singing and feeding young partially up the hill ; Downy Wood- 
pecker, at various localities near the trail. 
Doodletown Valley. After leaving the Inn grounds, the road 
winds westward around the southern base of the mountain, with 
rugged wooded hillside on the right and the densely wooded amphi- 
theatre on the left below, to what is locally known as Doodletown 
Valley. This portion of the road, though in no wise different in 
general characteristics from those already described, affords excel- 
lent facilities for roadside study of the birds of the region ( Figs. 8, 
9). Taking my observations in order, I made notes here regard- 
ing the Indigo Bunting, singing and feeding ; Towhee, in the bushy 
margins; House Wren, in the old orchards; Red-e} r ed Vireo, sing- 
ing in the woodlands; Chestnut-sided Warbler, singing and nesting 
in the shrubbery margins; Blue Jay, calling in the forest edges; 
Maryland Yellowthroat, active in the bushy margins; Hooded 
Warbler, singing in the openings; Robin, singing and nesting in 
the roadside sumachs; Scarlet Tanager, singing in the woodland 
margins; Broad-winged Hawk, in soaring flight; Chickadee, in 
the old orchards; Black and "White Warbler, singing near the 
roadside; Wofm-eating Warbler, singing back in the scrub; Black- 
billed Cuckoo, in the old orchards; Flicker, near the old orchards; 
Goldfinch, in flight-song, and feeding on roadside seeds; Downy 
