Lake Umbagog journals, 1871-1916 (inclusive)
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Dendroica tigrina. color 3 Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1896. I started out alone at 7.30 A.M. (at Lakeside) to look June 10. up some of the Cape May Warblers which we left here last month apparently settled for the season, one in the little spruce opening at the head of the Sweat Cove, another in the spruce pasture just below Strickland's in Upton, a third on the edge of the forest in small timber spruces at the S.E. corner of the Brown clearing opening, the fourth in dense pasture spruce between the Brown Cove and the road and within a few rods of the latter. (For map see Journal). I visited the singing stations of birds 3 & 4, and was delighted to find the latter at his usual post although he was singing only feebly and inter- mitently. Indeed I waited in his little corner nearly half- an-hour before he gave any sign of his presence. Twice after- wards I saw another Warbler which I took to be his mate for he joined her and the two flew off together but the spruces were so dense that I was unable to follow the birds or to get a fair sight at the supposed female. Probably I did not wait long enough for bird 3 for I found his favorite apparently silent and deserted with not even a Blackburnian within hearing. This, however, was be- fore the sun came fairly out and birds were not singing well. From the behavior of these Cape Mays and from the fact that the one seen this morning sang so very little I have re-