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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.