Brushwood 
Towhees 
abundant 
Colony of 
Hermit 
Thrushes 
The ground is so cumbered with lopped-off branches 
as to be impassable except by means of the cart-paths and 
ancient wood-roads along which one may walk with pe rfect 
ease. I traversed several of them this afternoon. Over a 
tract of at least 1000 acres in extent there are few trees 
standing which rise to a greater height than ten or fifteen 
feet, but sprout growth one to three years of age has sprung 
up everywhere through the wreckage left by the vrood- 
choppers. 
As I had anticipated would be the case, the entire 
region literally swarmed v;ith Towhees and Chestnut-sided 
Warblers, and I heard one or two Maryland Yellow-throats 
although the land is and exceedingly dry. I had 
not thought of Hermit Thrushes but they were there in num¬ 
bers equal to anything one might expect to find in the most 
forward posts of northern Maine and He?; Hampshire, At one 
time I heard three males in full song and in walking half 
a mile I must have heard as many as four or five, all told. 
One bird was a superb singer. Without doubt the bird (or 
birds) I have noted occasionally on the Farm of late come 
from this 
lying less than a mile to the westward 
