Excerpt from The Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 11: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the Study of Birds in the Field

The town of Holderness lies on the west shore of Squam Lake (or Lake Asquam), in almost the geographical center of the state of New Hampshire. It is divided naturally by the Squam Range and Little Squam Lake into three sections. I made the following observations in the area between the ridge of the Squam Range (elevation 2100 ft.) and Squam Lake (elevation 510 ft), with my headquarters at Camp Algonquin, on the shore of the lake. Notes were taken during the months of July and August, 1899, 1900, 1901, and 1903, but chiefly in the latter season, which also included the last five days of June and the first four days of September.

The shores of the lake are for the most part quite low, but rocky, with occasional narrow sand-beaches, and are covered with rather young woods of mixed growth, with here and there a grove of pine or hemlock. Nearly all of the farm houses are situated on the old road, which in most places 18 about a half-mile from the lake. Between these and the new road, not far from the shore, there are overgrown pastures and maple groves, with open fields near the houses. Back from the old road are mountain pastures and birch woods, stretching up to the almost bare top of Squam Range, about a mile away. Most of the marsh-birds were seen at Bennett's Creek, which meanders through a meadow into Bennett's Cove. Several years ago the dam at the outlet of Squam Lake was raised so that the lower end of this little plain was inundated and a lit tle lagoon was formed, with a sand-beach along the shore. According to Mr. Faxon, in the introduction to his Holder ness list (the Auk, Vol. V., p. The locality lies near the border of the Alleghanian and Canadian Avifaunae, al though decidedly Alleghanian in its general character.

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