Journals, 1871-1919 (inclusive)
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74 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