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margins of the bog islands, and thereafter for several days they 
were noted at various places on the pond shore. Both of these 
Night Herons were apparently juveniles in the brown phase of 
plumage and showed nothing of the brighter colors of the adults. 
In short flights these herons make four or five flappings with the 
wings, then sail ahead on wide-spread pinions, then repeat the 
series of wing-beats. 
Notes on Birds of Localities Adjacent to the Park. On 
June 21, 1918, I made observations concerning the bird life from 
Kanahwauke Lakes to Blauvelt, via St. John’s, Willow Grove, 
Thiells, Haverstraw, Conger’s, and Nyack. No birds not otherwise 
mentioned were seen on the trip, except the Purple Graekle, 
observed along the open district from Willow Grove school to 
Haverstraw; and the Meadowlark, in the neighborhood of Willow 
Grove school and Thiells, on open meadow and farm lands. The 
Bluebird was observed at the Military Training camp, near Blau- 
velt, in the edges of the adjacent woodlands. 
On May 25 and 26, and also on June 6, I made observations at 
Highland Falls, five miles north of Bear Mountain, on the wooded 
ridge between the main street of the town and the railroad station. 
The leading trees on the ridge and subjacent to it were casually 
noted as follows: white ash, linden or basswood, black locust, in 
blossom, tree of heaven, chestnut-oak, arbor vitas sparingly, white 
pine, paper birch, hemlock, several oaks, and yellow poplar, with 
ivy, woodbine, wild grape, elder and alder. Across the road, south 
of the wooded ridge under consideration, there is a large private 
park with a good proportion of planted ornamental trees. The 
road from the main street descends at a sharp grade between the 
ridge and the Park, around the end of the ridge, which stands as 
a perpendicular wall facing the railroad. A little brook filters 
down from the street near the abrupt end of the ridge, affording 
an attractive bathing place for the birds of the ridge, the wildwood 
nature of the sylvan ridge having been left almost intact. Birds 
there were noticed as follows : Wood Thrush, singing and nesting ; 
Scarlet Tanager, singing; Red-eyed Yireo, singing and nesting; 
Redstart, singing in the locust blossoms; Baltimore Oriole, singing; 
