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16
UPTON, MAINE
1871
two hundred of different species, many of them with broods of
young. We found upon our arrival, all the birds settled down
for the season and in full song. The number of birds in the
woods was absolutely astonishing and far excelled anything that
I ever saw in the most favored locality in Massachusetts.
Perhaps the multitudes of flies and mosquitoes that everywhere
swarmed had something to do with this, but be that as it may
all species of small birds, and especially the warblers were
excessively abundant everywhere.
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