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the red crossbill. Three years ago he had reported to the Auk the finding 
of this bird feeding young in this same locality, the first record of their 
nesting south of Pennsylvania. We found the brick-colored male, the 
greenish female and two streaked young. One of the young that lent 
himself to careful observation showed no crossing of the mandibles, which 
was easily observable in the adults through our binoculars. 
Among the several bird songs to which I was introduced for the first 
time three, three, three of the Kentucky warbler and the chip periweo of 
the white-eyed vireo are most easily recalled. The vireo had some varia- 
tions: chip hurray tuk tuk chip, sometimes using a trill instead of the 
introductory chip. The Carolina chickadee could be distinguished from our 
black-cap, both by the more rapid repetition of the dee, deé, dee phrase and 
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Mt. LeConte from the Newfound Gap Highway 
by the introduction of a grace note before each of the two principal notes 
of the mating whistle, making it really a four note call. (The plumbeous 
chickadee, heard in Oklahoma, a subspecies of the Carolina, also had two 
similar grace notes in the mating call.) The vinaceous cinnamon wash on 
the flanks could not be seen. Dr. C. W. G. EHifrig believes the Carolina 
chickadee ranges as far north as Springfield, Le The above observation 
may help in field identification. 
One night after dark Mr. Stupka took me up to Newfound Gap to 
hear what he believed to be the call or song of the saw-whet owl, a distant 
whistle repeated eight or ten times in the same pitch at regular intervals. 
The owl had never been positively seen. Mr. Leo K. Couch, of the Fish 
and Wildlife Service, for whom I tried to imitate the call, says it was 
the saw-whet. 
