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young; Redstart, singing and feeding young; Black and White 
Warbler, singing and feeding young; Cat-bird, singing, nesting 
and feeding young ; Crow, a family in morning confabulations up 
the ravine; Louisiana Water-thrush, singing and feeding along 
the little cascades of the ravine; Brown Thrasher, singing and 
nesting; and others coming and going in their activities in the 
vicinity of this basal hillside. 
The Southeast Entrance and Marsh. The eastern entrance to 
the Inn grounds is the beginning of an embanked roadway which 
diverges from the main road along the marsh and river shore. 
The Inn entrance, therefore, is the central point of the connection 
between the marsh, the river shore road, the outlying portion of 
the mountain base, and the southeastern outlying part of the Inn 
grounds between the lawn and the river. The diversity of environ- 
ment around the “ Entrance to Bear Mountain Inn ” makes it a 
very satisfactory center for observation of the birds. The road lead- 
ing southward from the Inn entrance skirts the mountain’s base 
along the marsh, and a short distance south of the entrance a 
dashing brook comes down a narrow ravine from a considerable 
amphitheatre on the hillside, meeting the marsh at the place where 
the road from Iona Island station meets the main road just 
described. The hillside above the brook is heavily wooded and 
tangled with bushes, but otherwise in the vicinity of the entrance 
the woods are broken, with scattered open areas of shrubbery and 
sapling thickets. Among the trees prominent in casual observation 
are aspens, oaks, chestnut (blighted), hemlock, birches, maples, 
tulip tree, young pine and fir (probably planted), white ash, and 
several hickories. The undergrowth is composed chiefly of black- 
berry, sumach, sweet fern, purple flowering raspberry, dogwood, 
witch hazel, sassafras, fire cherry, and saplings .of aspens, birches, 
maples, and most of the native hardwoods. Along the roads lead- 
ing to and fro near the Inn entrance can be seen evening primrose, 
mullein, toadflax, and other common tramp weeds. Later in the 
season goldenrods show plentifully, with ripening pokeberry and 
elderberry. Wild grape is an important factor in the tangles of 
shrubbery and saplings. Taking my notes in chronological order 
