Wpton, Maine. 1872 June 2-14 as noted last year I should grow call rather the operation, the song usually coming from on or over the ground among the legs; it was short but equally sweet with a warbling termination the whole made like whee-whee-whee-whee, two-two- two varying however in different individuals, in some much shorter whees whees two two. Occasionally they sang in the air soaring high up like I am so full of singing a few extra notes to the ordinary ones and at the end closing their wings & coming down as if shot to the ground. Hel. suffocilla, very rare but generally distributed, Not very common H. purpurina. With as numerous as last year. Sturnus auratulus. Not more than three or four individuals observed. Not more again distributed 72 " norboracensis. Not common around the lake but in the swampy thickets all the way up Cambridge River they absolutely abound; there is a striking uniformity in the notes of different individuals of this species. They always sing low down and in the darkest depths of the thickets, young flying by June 72 Dendrica viridis, Not common I. camiliana. Rather frequent in some parts of the woods. D. Blackburniana Found them abundant on migration on our arrival, frequenting in small companies low bushes brush piles & apple orchards; by the 5-th