338 MAINE, (L. Umbagog.) 1876. Saturday May 27 Clear and hot with N. wind, off after breakfast with S. taking the Stow road. Found birds rather more abundant than yesterday both as to species & individuals and most of them sang vigorously. Arrival area: Mel. peregrina Myct. obscur. Castanea O Chrodus potius Decral, P. subra 1/3, Shot about 12 birds the best G. Inymals 1, D. Black, & malis, Sh. varius 2/2, Paudra 3. The Blackburnians now very abundant and I frequently heard 6 or 7 males singing at once. This song is somewhat like Pamela's and may be represented by the syllables 'teip, teip, pe-pe-ke' with the last three notes on a higher key than the first two. The migration took quite a start this day and this coming at sunset I noticed that the birds were beginning to look green. In winter even is about the largest bird in spring that I have ever tried to shoot. It is almost impossible to get within range of them or to see them when you do. I saw one go down between the top of a rough bridge and going to the nest. I walked out on the timbers quietly and watching intently I soon spied the little fellow hopping about directly beneath my feet chasing spiders and flicking an abject insect off the surface of a sort of water. The song of this species is one of the best on here here. It is very like the notes of a canary bird in tonal method & purity. Spent the whole P.M. shooting birds.