Excerpt from The Birds of Berkshire County: Massachusetts The Housatonic Valley continues from Southern Berkshire through Western Connecticut to Long Island Sound, reaching in its lower course a region in which there is a strong admix ture of so-called Carolinian birds-birds, that is, which are common from Southern Connecticut southward, and but rarely found outside this region. The Southern water-thrush and the Orchard Oriole are two Carolinian birds. Since there is no barrier between the region where these birds abound and Southern Berkshire - the Housatonic Valley in fact affording an easy passage northward - their presence in small numbers in the county was to be expected. In fact, the Southern Water Thrush has been found breeding in Sheffield, and the Orchard Oriole occurs regularly, though sparingly, in the valley as far north as Lanesboro. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.