Hylocichla ustulatus swainsoni. 1896, Lake Umbagog. June 7. Song. Pine Point. (2) utterly wretched. At the time I supposed that this effect was due to the mood I happened to be in, but next day the same bird sang in the same way and with the same effect. The morning and evening singing about our camp has seemed to me delightful and I have looked forward to it through each day. Although the Swainson's Thrushes had apparently all ar- rived and taken up their summer quarters in the Pine Point woods before we opened the camp (May 21), they were very silent for the first week. Indeed during the remainder of May I seldom heard more than one or two songs (not singers) in any one day and these at daybreak or in the evening twilight. General and sustained singing began quite abruptly on June 2 after which we heard the song everywhere we went and more or less at all hours. But imme- diately about our camp the birds were more numerous than anywhere else. They invariably opened the bird concert at daybreak and closed it in the late evening twilight. I never heard one sing during the night. These Umbagog Thrushes seem to me to sing dif- ferently from the White Mountain birds. The song has, I think, more variations here. Our camp bird introduced a wee-e-o-wee-e-o bar every half minute.