158 1875. July 19 Clear with frequent intervals of clouds, and much haze. Started immediately after breakfast & drove to the Mountain house half way up Monadnock, when we left our team and ascended the rest of the way on foot. The path was very steep and the walking difficult. Reaching the summit we found the view almost as badly obscured by haze as that from Wachusett on the 17th inst. As soon satisfied our curiosity and reached the central house by 1.30 P.M. Monadnock is very rich a mountain, 3800 ft. above the sea and with a fine picturesque outline. All arborescent vegetation ceases some 300 ft. below the summit which is rocky and windswept with a few grasses ferns etc. growing in the hollows. Above or at the edge of the timber line were heard Junco hyemalis, Pipilo erythrop. Geothlypis trichas & Helmin. ruficapilla. Lower down found Virens, Pans atricapillus, Cherdes migratorius, & Hirundo socialis. Below the Mountain house Diceroica maculosa Pennsylvanica at Blackburn's (one of each latter shot) and in the pasture land near the barn Poecetes gramineus. In a little hollow among the rocks above the sharply defined timber line were a few shrub oaks and here was singing Hel. ruficapilla Pipilo ery, and S. trichas. The latter bird seemed abundant all over the mountain and their songs were I thought very different from those of England birds, sounding as they