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Dendroica blackburniae.
Maine (Lake Umbagog).
1879.
May 22. A single bird near poplar tavern.
" 24. A single female yesterday. About a dozen of both
sexes to-day; the males in full song.
" 27. Three adult males hopping about in a tree top with
other Warblers, occasionally even descending to the
ground.
" 29. During a trip up Cambridge River to the sluice
this Warbler was the most abundant species observed.
One male was singing in a very unusual manner its notes
resembling those of D. tigrina.
June 3. Not only the most abundant of the genus here this
season but actually outnumbering all the other Sylvicolidae put together.
" 5. A female shot to-day evidently would not have bred
for sometime.
(June 9) Conspicuous by its absence every where beyond Errol.
1880.
May 16. Numbers here already.
1881.
May 12. Numbers singing about the lake; seen yesterday
at Bethel.