Lake Umbagog journals, 1871-1916 (inclusive)
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Empidonax traillii alnorum. Bethel, Maine. 1903 June 4 On reaching the intervale beyond [Grover Hill] I found Alder Flycatchers in great numbers in the thickets bordering the sluggish meadow brook. I could hear them far and near in every direction. I noted the following calls:- Quee-quee or quee-queer both syllables strongly and about equally accented; queea, an ab- breviation, apparently, of the call just noted; quer or crer, low, querulous, very like call of young bird; pip or quip, the commonest call note and common to both sexes; p'see or p'seer, closely re- sembling cry of young Kingbird. Nearly all these calls were varied from time to time and several ran into one another through inter- mediate gradations.