23 UPTON, MAINE 1872 June 2 - 14 I was first attracted to him by his loud ringing laugh kept up for nearly a minute without intermission until I wondered how the bird could get breath: this note resembled the spring song of Colaptes auratus very closely but was much louder and a trifle shriller. The female bird killed by Mr.Deane was hammer- ing an old prostrate log to pieces. Trochilus colubris. Quite common: observed for the first time the courting of the male which poising in air ten feet or more above the branch on which the female was sitting, darted down at an angle of 45 deg. almost brushing her back then rising on the opposite side, would turn, poise a moment and plunge down again, repeating his shrill chirrup incessantly: this was kept up for a minute or more, when he would either fly off or settle lightly on some twig near his mate. 7. Myiarchus crinitus. Took a male in a thicket of spruce and birch on the edge of a clearing: it was silent and shy. On the stage road down heard two individuals, one in Newcry and the other in an old orchard about 2 miles to the north of Bethel. 8. Empidonax traillii. In the swamps on top of the hill to the South of the lake, a mile from the Lake house we found these birds in extraordinary abundance. In one place, especially, comprising about three acres of alder thickets with scattering poplar saplings along the edge they seemed to absolutely swarm and after we had shot twenty their numbers did not appear di- minished in the least. Their old nests were everywhere but al- though at this time (June 13) they were evidently settled for