156 1875 June 17 and also a single plain villager and three solitaries, the two latter with my. crinton not being visited afterwards during our journey towards V into N.H., At 8 P.M. we left the Mountain house after a good dinner, and made the town of Windage by 7.30 A. by 7.30 P.M. a distance of about 24 miles. Passing through Westminster depot and Ashburnham. Very quickly does the flora and to a certain extent the fauna, change after leaving Massachusetts. Spruce, larches and trees grow now freely intermingled with the more cosmopolitan birches and maples, the bunchberry grew along the roadside everywhere and the hermit thrush became one of the commonest birds. A few miles N. of Ashburnham and I think within our state line the road passed through a large swamp—just such a swamp as in we would harbor the Spruce grouse and the Canada Jay, and here stopping a moment to listen I was much pleased at hearing a old male Blackburnice in full song and undoubtedly breeding. At this place we also listened a long time to that most delicious of all bird melody, the song of the hermit thrush; the bird was I think the finest performer that I ever heard and the tones of his calm lofty series were given with a depth and clearness of intonation absolutely faultless. Passing several beautiful ponds where the loons were now told bred, we put up for the night at the Bridge hotel.