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BIRDS 
quite a different class of birds. In a 
country of the Beech and Maple I do 
not find the same songsters that I know 
where thrive the Oak, Chestnut, and 
Laurel. In going from a district of the 
Old Red Sandstone to where I walk upon 
the old Plutonic Rock, not fifty miles dis¬ 
tant I miss in the woods the Veery, the 
Hermit - Thrush, the Chestnut - Sided 
Warbler, the Blue-Backed Warbler, the 
Green-Backed Warbler, the Black and 
Yellow Warbler, and many others,—and 
find in their stead the Wood-Thrush, the 
Chewink, the Redstart, the Yellow- 
Throat, the Yellow-Breasted Flycatcher, 
the White-Eyed Flycatcher, the Quail, 
and the Turtle-Dove. 
In rny neighborhood here in the High¬ 
lands, the distribution is very marked. 
South of the village I invariably find one 
species of birds,—north of it, another. In 
only one locality, full of Azalea and 
Swamp-Huckleberry, I am always sure of 
finding the Hooded Warbler. In a dense 
undergrowth of Spice-Bush, Witch-Hazel, 
and Alder, I meet the Worm-Eating 
Warbler. In a remote clearing, covered 
