67 UPTON, MAINE 1874 August 5 - 6 of a very small size. Unlike last season I rarely see or hear this bird near the Lake House and what few I have seen elsewhere have the habits of the species in fall. I have been utterly unable to detect either D.tigrina or H.peregrina within the last few days and think that the bulk of both species have already left here. I took a Set.ruticilla, a ♀ of last year, that was beginning to moult his worn plumage: the new feathers that had already started indicated a fall plumage like the young: whether the adult ♂ assumes this plumage or not I am at present uncertain. I heard two bird notes to-day that I was unable to determine: one was very like the Chip churr of Pyranga rubra and may have been the call of the young. August 6. Clear and warm. Sprinkled a little in P.M. Off after breakfast with S. taking the Tyler road and going nearly over to the farm. Took 11 birds, the best H.peregrina 4, D.tigrina 1 (im. ♂ ) E.traillii 1 (y.y.), E.flaviventris 1 (adult ♀), Trochilus colubris 1 (y.y.) Came across a brood of young E.traillii on Abbotts farm: they were in a thicket of low bushes and the young as of the former brood called cit qui wicky which the ♀ reiterated the peep of alarm. The hummer was sitting on a high spruce and kept up an incessant shrill zeeep which puzzled me for some time until I caught sight of its author. In an open second growth of birch and poplar we came across a large company of warblers 5/4 of which were H.peregrina and among them I shot the D.tigrina and a very young nestling of D.blackburniae. The first species had a chirp very (if not exactly) like that