Journals, 1871-1919 (inclusive)
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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.