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1872
June 2-14
Upton, Maine.
Regulus Satrapa. I have seen this season; heard only
one or two specimens. Rem 72 for song or diery
(Monotitta varia) are noticed quite frequently up
to 9 o'clock night when it unusually stopped)
Parula Americana Not common this season.
My common 73
G. trichas. Common in the clearing and living
and breeding in the hilly pastures in jills of
fallen tree tops also company with the following:
G. Philadelphia Rather common but restricted
locally; found them altogether on high spruce land
along the brush fences and old log heaps rarely
far from the edge of the woods, and indeed
I sometimes saw considerable ways in in little
scenery clearings but never in the gloomy depth
of the forest On all this motions they only
resembled G. trichas keeping usually on or
near the ground; from that bird they were
readily distinguished however by the different
markings of the head & throat and indeed were
akin, a striking resemblance to O. agilis: they
were also more severe retiring & timid than
G. trichas and hardly to take plunging at one
into this favorite thicket when alarmed.
On several occasions I shot the woods in the
tops of enormous buck or Birch trees, seventy or
eighty feet in height growing along the edge of
the woods; in such situations they showed consider-
able activity, chasing insects among the branches
and frequently singing. Although they sang from
both exposed situation and more often than the
yellow throat; such habit is far from being the only