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Wilton, Maine.
1872
June 14
near the lake. This bird must have twins in the
season as several specimens are so perfect juveniles
that no external marks distinguish them from
the adult now clearly shown on direction by the
rudimentary condition of the genital organs &
the softness of the skull to be birds of not more
than three or four months of age, while other of
both sexes were taken with those organs developed
to the highest degree although none of them
had I think actually laid. The young went
in companies of six or eight frequently accompanied
by a pair of P atricapillus; they kept invariably
in the thickest spruce trees usually near the
top and were very silent quiet and hard to
detect: they had all the motions of P atricap.
though perhaps a trifle less lively and animated,
and the same emphatic chirp, another note they
also used which possibly was the song of the
adults, a single che-day day very different from
anything I ever heard from the other bird.
Chrysometris frisona. Saws it twice June 13 & 15-th.
Very abundant, everywhere in company with P tricolor 73
Curvirostra Anu. Heard them passing overhead about
June 13. Abund, 4 or, 5 dists. 72
Passerculus savanna. Common all the way
up from B. On the very top of the great hill
above the lake found them breeding in
colonies in the dry mowing fields of English
gress: I think there must have been
at least fifteen or twenty pairs in one
enclosed field.
Lonotrichia albescens, Nest & 4 moth fresh eggs June 6.