69 UPTON, MAINE 1874 August 9 - 10 and were quite noisy, calling out pser pser pse er in a peevish tone very like the young of E.minimus. The old ♀ was in perfect spring plumage: indeed I begin to suspect that the two E. re- presentatives of this genus do not moult at all in summer. The young of My canadensis, D.blackburniae and D.maculosa have now for the most part acquired their full fall plumage. S. shot two Cont.borealis and a D.virens in imperfect 2nd plumage. August 9. (Sunday) Rained most of the day. Spent all the P.M. in skinning the birds shot yesterday. August 10. Clear and hot. Off after breakfast taking the Tyler road and going as far as the Tyler farm. Shot 11 birds, the best D.tigrina ♂ adult, G.trichas nestling, D.maculosa 1 nestl. Picus villosus very white ♀, Chaetura pelargia 1 adult, D.cas- tania 1 y.y. Stone shot a young ♀ P.arcticus with yellow on the crown: here we have the unique case of a young ♀ bird possess- ing the adornments of the adult ♂ and loosing them in the first moult as I am convinced this bird would have done. I obtained this specimen from him in exchange for my adult ♂ shot last week and also exchanged a Emp.flaviventris for a very fine young ♀ Sphy.varius. I also shot a y.y. Sciurus auropillus. We saw no game excepting a pair of pigeons flying high up. In P.M. skinned our birds. The chirp of the warblers I have heard for several nights past and I think they are already beginning to move. No bird sings regularly now excepting Zon.atrichia and he is fast lapsing into silence. His two first notes are ex- actly those of the "Mulligan gaurds". After supper took a