78 1872 June 2-14 Wilton, Maine. I infer that these birds must have been migrating probably for the N. part of the breeding season taking into account the well known fact that the females usually close the migration of a species would tend to confirm this hypothesis, and in all three individuals the ovaries were but slightly developed showing that time for reproduction was still apace. It has been taken only once before in N.E. at Waterville Me by E. C. Hamber May 8th. 13 Mimnus polyglottis. Rather rare, brads. Anethura pygmaea. As was the case last year although they were continually singing around us in the woods we did not succeed in getting a shot at a single individual. Very flying June 70 Certhia Americana. Not common, plain & infall song am now of the opinion that the notes heard in May and described in my Dr. record were the practicing of the young bird as they can own protrasted warbling than the song heard in M which was short fond and emphatic though notal way neat. Setta. Card. Saw them more frequently than last year but the species was still very common. Although all the specimens taken & skinned were old their notes had at this season a high nasal tone not heard in Autumn or now kept up incessantly like the complaints of a young bird. 14 Parus Hudsonicus. Found them rather frequent in a certain tract of fir & spruce forest