Wilton, Maine. July 14 They and when jumped would start quietly and fluttering off over the ground as if to light again within a few yards would fly the whole length of the thicket; this trick we noticed repeatedly and it was only by using the greatest care in capture that they were procured; they also had a habit of invariably lighting with this backs toward the pursuer, now out of tear was shot in behind. Their notes were immense I kept up incessantly. The song of the E. as sharp and harsh quack chee varying to quac excheep and sometimes quak quah; this was as frequently uttered from thick depths of the thicket as from the tops of the alders bushes and although they sometimes perched in the high trees ashmad or on some overhanging limb they can’t sang in such situations. The ordinary note bird by both sexes was a pletulant chip sometimes repeated several times in quick succession; they also had an angry grumous trill especially when fighting; all their cries were instantly dispersed on the birds being approached, although the report of a gun did not seem to alarm them much. Their nests were large bulky affairs composed of Spanish moss coarse weed stalks & grass with odd shavings of pine roots now placed about breast high in the crotch of a alder or poplar sapling. E. minimus. Abundant but locally distributed, not found in the forest depths. E. flavinutris Heard at least two bona fide songs of the male, a single clap something like the chirp of E. minimus and repeated at intervals of about 20 seconds. Found them as last year in the Alder swamps but they were much more numerous in the willows thickets along the edge of Cambridge River.