10 UPTON, MAINE 1871 42. D. Pennsylvanica. Occurs quite plentifully all the way up the valley. It is not at all scarce at Upton in the clearings along the edge of the woods. 43. D. striata. Took a female the first morning, Mary 31st, probably a straggler from the migration as we did not see it afterward, though Verril gives it as "very common at the Um. lakes bredding". Found them quite abundant at Bethel May 30th in the apple orchards. 44. D.maculosa. Common everywhere especially along the wood paths and edges of clearings. Kept always low down in the branches when in the woods. One nest found June 8th and two others June 9th were all built about breast high in a small fir and contained each four freash eggs. 45. D.tigrina. Very common everywhere but especially in the thickets of tall firs. Song precisely like D.castanea and habits very similar, but rather more active, keeping always near the tops of the highest trees and occasionally launching out after a passing insect. They also had a habit of sitting perfectly motionless on the topmost pinnocle of some enormous spruce or fir for ten or fifteen minutes at a time and singing at regular intervals: at such time they were extremely hard to see, and when shot were almost certain to lodge on the spreading branches. The females,like the opposite sex, always kept high up in the trees: we took several that were about to lay and one shot June 9th had evidently deposited all but her last egg.