Journals, 1871-1919 (inclusive)
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Wilton, Maine. 1872 June 14 region 10 D. aestiva. Very rare: a single pair among the plum trees in the garden June 11. Did not detect it anywhere on the road up though it was observed at Bethel last year by Mr. Hayward. 11. Myiozetetes fusculus, Saw perhaps half a dozen specimens during the first of our stay; they frequented the brush heaps and thickets along the wood edges and had all disappeared by the 5th. Pycnonotus rubra. Heard a single specimen at mile or two N. of the motel. 12 Virio Philadelphicus. Three specimens were taken, all females. The first was shot by Mr. Dews June 3 from the top of a tall beech tree; I was silent the next day he secured another in a thicket of firs and handled distinctly after a rather Sylvesterian chip. From 5th I was so fortunate as to fall in with the 3rd individual and watched it for several moments before shooting; it was in a small beech tree growing in a fir glen, and looked extremely small; its motions it resembled [illegible] but was far more slow & deliberate than any of them hopping mainly from branch to another; I was quite certain that I heard the chip described by Mr. D. but may have been mistaken as there were several warblers in the same tree. As we were unable to detect any other individuals upon the shickest track, and did not hear anywhere in the woods any song that could be referred to the male, and taking into account