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Hylocichla g. pallasii.
Lake Umbagog, Me.
Sept. & Oct. 1893.
Turdus pallasi
Sept. 21 2 2½ 2½ 26 27 28 30
Oct. 2¼ 4¹ 5² 7² 8¹ 12²/13³
" 16³ Grafton Notch.
Oct. 5 A Hermit fluttering about our
camp alighting on a big boulder
clinging to a nearly vertical face, it
utters the migration note occasionally
and I write it down on the spot as
peer, a whistle, clear low but penetrating,
easily imitated. I have heard this note
frequently the past week.
Lake Umbagog, Maine.
Turdus pallasii
1894
August 28² Ballads
September 22½ (7.30 a.m. Pin Point
for 3 minutes)
" 23 autumn flight note) 27do. 29 30
October 2 2 3¹² 4³ Pin Point.
1895.
September 20(Pin Pt.) 21(do) 29½ Pin Pt.
Lake Umbagog, Maine.
1896 Turdus pallasi
May 21
Where in among somewhat matted
torn & rising vegetation. This
is what I have called the
volume
Lake Umbagog.
Turdus pallasii
1896.
May 13½ bird (Green Nest) 14♂ singing calling 15♀ nest 4 eggs
" 16 2☀️ 17² 4on 18♀ nest, sunny 19 nest 4
eggs, corn (Castle C.)
" 20³ 21½ - Baldside
June 11½ 12½ 13½ "
Depville Notch
June 14² One closely in watch on
mountain side above road,
the other about ½ mile S. of
Notch, copy (6)
In the spruce-grown pastures near Baldside
the Hermit thrush judging by the number
of birds seen & especially by that of the
(4 nests eggs) almost 4 not quite as
many found around '70's. It was strongly
summer as in the '70's. It was strongly
summer as in the '70's. It was strongly
summer as in the '70's. It was strongly
marked, however, showing the white of one
flank, there was at least 3 or pairs settled
along ½ mile of the hotel but I rarely found
within ½ mile of the hotel but I rarely found
within 1/2 mile of the hotel but I rarely found
closer than I linger in any one morning,
more than I linger in any one morning, I did not find
even & sometimes not one, for did not find
the flowers at all at the head of the lake.
Lake Umbagog, Maine.
1896 Turdus pallasii
May 18 Nest 4 fresh looking eggs, one with
5 or 6 reddish spots (the carpet of), found
by Watson in a opening on E. side of
forest behind schoolhouse, most of spruce
growth, closely-cropped pasture land, nest
on the edge of a cluster of little balsams
6 to 12 inches high/- deeply sunk in turf
at base of one of these thus concealed by
them perfectly on three sides but perfectly
unsheltered & visible 20 yds away on the
fourth side. Amid a typical situation.
Bird flushed at 42 ft. & flew off silently.
I lay about 100 yds. off.
May 20. visited nest & found it empty.
no trace of shells & lining not
disturbed, a Hermit was 30 yards off.