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Zonotrichia leucophrys. Zonotrichia leucophrys Aut. occurrence in Me. On the knoll behind the Sale House I saw a White-crowned Sparrow so distinctly that I am positive of its identity. It was in company with Song Sparrows in a brush fence. I had no gun but by “squeaking” I called it out and got a good view of it. It was a young bird in fall plumage. I have never seen this species here before but Dean examined one that was killed by Pich’s Cat in May, 1870. Upton, Maine Oct. 5, 1882 Oct. 9th 1882. Shot an adult ♂ in the brush fence above mainland. It was with Song Sparrows & Lake Umbagog, Maine. Zonotrichia leucophrys 1894 October 5th Driving to-day from Ballads to Pretzel I saw three of these sparrows on Upton Hill and a fourth in Grafton besides several others that I was nearly sure of. All that I saw were young birds, in company with Song & White-throated Sparrows. 1895. Sept. 25 * 1-43 5pm There were at least half a dozen probably a dozen away while it (burnt last year) near the site of the Umbagog House at Ballads or Upton. I saw five young birds together in one bush, & kept staring them or others. The old bird sang six or eight times in full tone. Weather clear, warm, field (9.30 a.m.) October 1 - Saw at least three or four drones down from Ballads to Pretzel. Lake Umbagog. 1896. Zonotrichia leucophrys. May 12<sup>nd</sup> Grafton " 13 ad | 14 (3) ad | 16 ad. " 17 (5) young at × Museum, W.B. ia leucophrys or of Me. 24. 1888 (19107) 30. 1890 (30334) gamblei ?
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L. Umbagog. Zonotrichia leucophrys. copy 1 1890. Sept. 29-30. On the afternoon of the 29th I saw four feeding on the ground by the side of a road. They flew into bushes along a fence when disturbed and were as skilful as most Sparrows in taking advantage of this shelter. Three of the four were adult birds. Just after sunset I walked through a large patch of weeds on the intervale in front of the house and started another, a young bird which I shot. On the morning of the 30th. I beat these weeds and a neighbor- ing patch many times always flushing a number of White-crowns from each. There were at least eight young birds and two adults, & probably several more. They were shy as a rule rising thirty yds. or more ahead of us and flying directly to the bushes which border- ed the open ground on three sides. In these they at once conceal- ed themselves so effectually that it was difficult to get a sight at any of them. They occasionally showed themselves when I "sreepeed" but were much less responsive in this respect than the Song, Swamp & Lincoln's Sparrow with which they were intermingled. They showed an especial fondness for brush heaps from which it was not easy to dislodge them. One, a young bird, sang a confused, warbling strain very like that of a young Song Sparrow. While thus engaged it sat on the top of a brush heap in the sun turning its head from side to side, its throat swelling. Besides this song I heard two distinct notes, a strong Passerine lisp exactly like that of a Grass Finch and a short emphatic whit which I have described on a former occasion. The lisp was most frequently given to-day. It was easy to distinguish these Sparrows from all the others, even 7
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Zonotrichia albicollis. Maine (Lake Umbagog). 1879. June 12. Set of four perfectly fresh eggs. Nest in top of mound by side of Peaslee's Brook; beautifully overlapped and concealed by ferns, wild raspberries, and other trailing vines. Female sitting. I stepped within less than two feet of the nest before she started, when she fluttered up into a bush within a few yards and there remained, uttering occasionally a sharp chirp which soon brought up the male. This female was one of the finest plumaged ones that I have seen; in fact I could distinguish no difference between her and the male. (June 18) Set C-4. Incubated about seven days. Nest on ground in bed of Yew, but not overshadowed or concealed in any way. The female was a young bird with ashy throat and generally plain plumage. She sat very closely and after being started chirped anxiously. 1880. June 5. Set D-4. Incubated about seven days; nest among dry ferns under a small brush-heap by the roadside; female sitting; she flew from the nest when I stepped on the edge of the brush-pile, and at once began to utter her metallic chink which called up the male who had been singing a few rods away. Errol road in Cambridge Township " " Set E-4. Incubated four days. Nest deep, well sunk in the ground, concealed under a small detached dead limb lying on the ground in an opening among firs. The female sat closely. I flushed her by brushing against the branch. Returning later she was again on the nest; she permitted me to get within two feet of her, when I noticed her body was not palpitating as is usual in such cases. When started off she plunged into a thicket of firs and kept perfect silence. Reyerson's clearing. " 9. Set F-4. Incubated eight days--nest sunk among green moss on top of prostrate log, concealed under a dead fir branch that lay across it. Lake shore. e. of Brown's clearing. " 15. A nest with young placed in the side of a mossy bank in no way over arched or concealed save by the clustering dwarf cornell that surrounded it. The bank was fairly snowy with its blossoms which formed a beautiful setting for the pretty nest. " 17. Young on wing. Sept. 3 One singing this evening. 1882. Oct. 8-22 The most numerous Sparrow up to about the 18th. Sevoral soon October 21.
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Zonotrichia albicollis Zonotrichia albicollis Oct. 12²⁰ - 13¹⁰ - 14²⁰ - 15²⁰ - 16¹ - 17¹ - 18² 1886. L. Umbagog, Maine. Sept. 1887 Zon. albicollis 1¹⁰ - 2²⁰ - 4⁶ - 5¹⁰ - 6¹⁰ - 8¹⁰ - 10¹⁰ - 12¹⁰ - 13⁴ - 15⁴ - 17⁴ - 20⁴ 23⁴ - 23¹⁵ - 24⁴ - 25⁶ - 26² - 29¹⁰ Sept. Zon. albicollis 4⁶ - 7¹⁰ - 10¹⁰ - 11⁴ - 12²⁰ - 13²⁰ - 15¹⁰ - 19² - 23⁶ - 25⁶ - 30⁴ 1888 Oct. 2²⁰ - 3⁴ - 6²⁰ - 7²⁰ - 8²⁰ - 9²⁰ - 10²¹ - 11¹⁰ Zon. albicollis Sept. 4¹⁵ - 6² - 7⁶ - 10² - 11² - 13⁴ - 14⁶ - 16⁶ - 18² - 25⁴ - 28⁴ - 30²⁰ 1889 Oct. 1²⁰ - 2¹⁰ - 5⁵ - 8¹⁰ - 9⁶ - 10⁴ - 11² - 23¹ 40 Zon. albicollis Sept. 22⁴ - 23¹⁰ - 24⁶ - 26⁴ - 28² - 29⁶ - 30⁴ Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1890. Oct. 3¹ - 7⁶ - 8¹ - 10¹ᵃᵈ - 13¹ - 16³ - 23¹ᵃᵈ - 24¹ᵃᵈ Lake Umbagog, Me. Sept. & Oct. 1893. Zonotrichia albicollis Sept. 21¹⁵ - 22⁶ - 24² - 26² - 28¹ - 29² Oct. 1¹ - 2¹ - 3¹ - 4¹ - 10² - 15² " 16³⁰ up to Bethel. Lake Umbagog, Maine. Zonotrichia albicollis 1894 August 27⁴ - 28² - Lakeville " 30 - - - - - - Pine Point September 12¹ - - - - - - " " 19¹ - - - at sunset - - - Erol October 1² Leonard's Pond. " 5¹⁰⁰ Lakeville to Bethel 1895. August 31²ᵃᵈ & jun Lakeville September 10¹ jun floating dead in & off Pine Point. (Heavy fog last night) " 17¹ᵃᵈ beg. pine 18¹ Pine Pt. 19² jun 20³ jun 27¹ jun " 28⁵ 29¹⁵ Jun. woods. - 30⁶ Pine Pt. October 1³ newry Lake Umbagog. 1896. Zonotrichia albicollis Pine Point. May 11² Bethel. " 13¹⁰ 14⁸ 15¹⁰ 16¹⁰ 17⁶ - 19⁶ } nun " 18⁶ 19⁶ 20⁶ 21⁶ } Lakeville " 22² P. 23⁴ 24³ᵃᵈ P. 25² 27¹ 28² 30³ 31¹ June 1² 2² 3² 4² 6⁴ " 10² 12² " 14⁵ Dispersed Note (at highland point) " 14⁴ Colebrook, N.H. May 19 - a pair co-satisfying. " 29 nest 4 fresh eggs. [Osgood's Camp?]. " 30 " 4 eggs one about 4 days. (Brown's Pond)
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Junco hiemalis. 1871. Maine (Lake Umbagog). June --- A nest containing four fresh eggs, was built under the side of a fallen log in a pasture. 1872. June 3. Nest with young about a week old. 1876. color① May 30. // Near the bog on the Tyler road I came suddenly upon a female Snow-bird at work nest-building. She bustled about among the leaves collecting large mouthfuls and arranging them in a hollow among some small firs. In no instance did she go over ten feet away from the spot in her search for these materials. // June 13. A-4. A nest by the roadside in Grafton was built in the edge of a bank in a hole that extended in and downward at least five inches. The bird sat closely but disap- peared after being started off. Near Brown's Cover. inc. about 8 days. 1879. June 10. A nest, beautifully concealed in the bank of an upturned tree, contained five large young. " 12. Set of four eggs incubated about four days; nest sunk in the closely-cropped turf of a sheep pasture, sheltered and perfectly concealed by small dead fir branch which some one had dropped there. I stopped within about four feet of this nest when the female rose, flying to a neighboring fir, where she remained, utter- ing occasionally her characteristic chuck. The male did not appear. W.H.Ton. " 13. Nest in root bank beautifully concealed by a hang- ing curtain of earthy roots; contents: five young about a week old. " 14. Set C-4. Incubated about eight days. Nest on roadside in bank where a large rock had been taken out. " 20. Young on wing. 37
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Junco hyemalis. Maine (Lake Umbagog). 1880. May 22. Set D-3. Incubated about four days--nest on ground in hilly pasture. " " Set E-4. Incubated about four days--on ground in hilly pasture. Coll O. S. Mouse. Upton. copy 2 " 24. Three sets, four eggs each; one fresh, the other two incubated several days. The nests all in root banks placed almost exactly like those of Siurus naevius. The females were all sitting; two of them skulked away when I was eight or ten yards away from their nests and then came hopping about on the ground making a show of (May 24) feeding unconcernedly. The female of the third nest, the eggs of which were considerably further ad- vanced than the others, sat more closely, permitting me to approach within a yard. She looked very pretty in her snug retreat with her neat drab plumage and fleshy-pink bill; when she started she began tumbling about on the ground as if wounded. Upton. " 28. Set J-5. Incubated about four days. Side of earthy root-bank. & sitting G william. Cambridge River Imt & Alex Coolidge. June 15. Set I-4. Fresh--root-bank against face of small rock that was hung among roots. Height five feet; fe- nale sat closely. After blowing the ground-tint becomes pale green. dark slime w. J. Peaslee's Brook. " 19. Set M-3. Incubated about two days--side of mound in thicket under large yellow birch. Female sitting; she skulked quietly away but afterwards came up to have a look at me, chirping. John Brown's Pond [4 eggs]. copy 3 1882. Oct.8-22 Common during our stay. Their numbers perceptibly increased as the month wore on and by the 21st they were exceedingly abundant. In a drive to Andover taken that day we estimated that we saw at least five hundred. They were partial to the edges of the woods and roadsides but were to be found every where, even in the depths of the forest.
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Melospiza & melodia L. Umbagog, Maine. Melospiza melodia - by common. May 30-June 10, 1871. 2 per week Melospiza melodia - Sept. 5 1873. Mel. mel Aug. 15- 1874 / Oct. 9, 13 Melospiza meloda, Oct. 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 27 1884. Melospiza meloda Oct. 9 3,4 10 1/2 11 1/2 12 1/2 13 1/2 15 1/2 17 1/2 18 1/2 21 1/2 22 1/2 23 1/2 24 1/2 25 1/2 1885 Melospiza meloda. Oct. 13 3/4 15 3/4 17 3/4 18 3/4 19 3/4 1886. Sept. 1887 Mel. meloda 14 2/3 2 2/3 4 2/3 6 2/3 8 2/3 10 2/3 12 2/3 15 2/3 20 2/3 22 2/3 26 2/3 28 2/3 Sept. Mel. meloda 4 2/3 10 2/3 14 2/3 16 2/3 19 2/3 25 2/3 27 2/3 Oct. 2 2/3 7 2/3 9 2/3 10 2/3 full song 1888 M. meloda Sept. 3 4/15 4 4/15 5 4/15 6 4/15 7 4/15 10 4/15 11 4/15 12 4/15 13 4/15 14 4/15 16 4/15 30 4/15 1889 Oct. 1 4/15 5 4/15 8 4/15 9 4/15 11 4/15 16 4/15 17 4/15 22 4/15 23 4/15 24 4/15 34 Mel. meloda Sept. 21 10/15 22 10/15 23 10/15 24 10/15 25 10/15 26 10/15 27 10/15 30 10/15 Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1890. Oct. 1 14/15 3 14/15 5 14/15 6 14/15 8 14/15 9 14/15 10 14/15 12 14/15 16 14/15 Lake Umbagog, Maine. Lake Umbagog, Me. Sept. & Oct. 1893. Melospiza fasciata Oct. 6 Pine Pt., 15 2/15 Baldside " 16 15/15 cypress to Bethel. 1894 Melospiza fasciata August 28 1/15 Baldside September 11 1/15 (busted) 12 1/15 Leonard's Pond " 19 1/15 Errst to Drip well notes " 20 1/15 " " 23 1/15 Outtho. " 25 1/15 " " 26 1/15 Pegalloway Pond " 28 1/15 " " 29 1/15 " Baldside to Black St. Cove October 1 14/15 (busted) 2 1/15 " 3-70 Baldside to Bethel. 1895. August 29 10/15 Bethel to Baldside " 30 6/15 31 6/15 September 1 5 1/15 full song Pine Pt. 9 10/15 14 10/15 15 10/15 24 10/15 Beach " 25 10/15 (Baldside) 28 10/15 Baldside to Bethel. October 1 10/15 Baldside to Bethel. 47
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Melospiza lincolni. 1890, September 24. Lake Umbagog. Started two Lincoln's Finches from fine dry grass in a wet hollow in Sargent's plantation. H (enshaw) killed one flying. I the other in a brush fence where it sought shelter. September 25. Lake Umbagog. Pearley White's. I killed a beautiful Lincoln's Finch here. It started from the ground in a pasture on the edge of a strip of maples in one of which it alighted sitting perfectly still until I killed it. September 30. sopy 3 Lake Umbagog. Lakeside. I had intended to spend the day in packing but seeing a large number of Sparrows in a patch of weeds on the interval in the front of the house I took my gun immediately after breakfast, and went down to have a look at them. One of the first that I started was a fine adult White-crowned Sparrow which I shot in a I saw several more white-crown and shot a Lincoln's Finch. Encamped by it.) brush pile but could not find. Soon after this (I beat the weeds the weeds carefully many times in succession, driving the Sparrows from them to the bushes along the fences and by the lake shore where I could inspect them with comparative ease. Identified posi- tively seven Lincoln Finches of which I shot four, and ten White- crowned Sparrows of which I killed one. All but two of the White- crowns were young birds. One of them sang a confused but very Song sweet warbling strain not unlike that of a young Sparrow. I could have shot most of these young White-crowned Sparrows easily enough had I wished to do so, but the old birds were shy. 61
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L. Umbagog. 1890. copy 6 Melospiza lincolni. On the intervale between Lakeside Hotel and the Lake shore are Sept.30 two patches of cultivated ground which owing to neglect, are now densely covered with tall weeds, which, ever since my arrival, have been thronged with Sparrows, chiefly Song & Swamp Sparrows with a few White-throats and Chippies and an occasional Savannah. I have beaten these places repeatedly for Lincoln's Finches but have found none until this morning when I saw at least seven, four of which I shot. All of them started from the weeds well out in the field and flew to the bushes and brush heaps along the border of the woods. I had no difficulty in distinguishing them from the Song Sparrows. and Swamp They lay closer than either and both sitting and flying looked smaller and slenderer. Their flight was peculiar and characteristic very level, direct & rather swift yet feeble and whirring, like that of a Marsh Wren. On reaching the bushes they would at once dis- appear but I found it easy to call them out again by making a low screeping sound. When in the bushes they seem to be less active than the other Sparrows and addicted to sitting perfectly still for several minutes at a time. When alarmed or suspicious, however, they would jerk their tails up and sideways much in the manner of a Goathlypis. During the entire forenoon I did not once hear any of them make any sound whatever. There were ten or twelve White- crowned Sparrows with them. Of those shot three were males, one a female. All were excess- ively fat. 64
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Habia ludoviciana. P= Pine Point. 1896 Lake Umbagog. August 22. A brown bird either ♀ or ♂ & fluttering about in alders near the lake house in company with wrens & sparrows. It entered the antlered cell with several times. 1897. September 6. A brown bird either ♀ or ♂ appeared in a bush directly in front of the camp at Pine Point & remained there for several minutes fluttering about among the upper branches. There was a few wretches in the grove at the time but were very near the tree in which the grosbeak was. 1898. August 30 ☾ 31 ☾ copy ⓥ September 1, 2, 3 heavy 4! heavy flight. early 5-6 sound flock wing P (been 7! (squal water nor. fog this evening this evening night) / (zig) August 30. A young male with the entire breast suffused with pale rose color disguised in the pine in front of the camp and remained there for several minutes calling chick and peep. The chick was similar in form to the ordinary chick but very different in quality being soft & throaty. This is the note that I hear on July at home when the young birds are eating our cherries. The peep is used chiefly as a flight call during northward migration. It is closely similar to the flight call of the throated finch. I do not hear either of those notes in spring. " 31. One giving the ordinary chick call at close range. Aug - Sept. Heavy nocturnal migration on nights of August 30 & Sept. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 September 5 A heavy flight all night. Studying the flight call closely I find that it is subject to great variation. Sometimes it is throaty almost guttural - again clear and sweet (peep); at times metallic (chink). The metallic form closely resembles the chink of the Bobolink.