76 1872 June 2 - '4 Upton, Maine all had left or retired to the tops of the forest trees. D. castanea. Migrating on our arrival, by the 6th this number even thinned nearly one half (though the poor still very numerous) and they now settled for the season. Detected the difference in song between this species & D. tigrina; the notes of the present species are fewer and grufflier (gee-guee) than those of the capella whose song bears much closer resemblance to that of D. striata being compound of fair or fair flesh, though withall while repetitions of the syllable gee attuned in rather a slow measured tone and with a rising inflection. D. striata. Not common and migrating up to the 5th when they disappeared. Saw them all the way up from Bethel D. tigrina. Common all the way up from the North. On dark rainy weather they came out of the woods and fed among the briers of low fir savins, hanging head downward at the extremity of the branches often continuing in one position for many moments apparently picking out minute insects from under the leaves. Per a clump of blossoming plum trees directly across our window in the garden we were always sure of finding several of them; both they resorted for company with numbers of Hummingbirds, which however they were continually chasing about. On June 3. we took a fully formed egg but without the shell from a 9 and a little later judging from the fine corrugated lining of several individuals of the same sex; they were all incubating; thus they must be surely the first warble to bud in this