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Geog. Dist, — Eastern North America, breeding from Kansas and Virginia 

 to Alaska, Hudson Bay, and Newfoundland, south in the Alleghany Moun- 

 tains to South Carolina, west to Colorado and Montana ; rarely breeding in 

 the northern Bahama Islands ; accidental in British Columbia ; wintering 

 from Florida and the islands off the coast of Louisiana to southern Mexico, 

 Central America and the West Indies. 



County Records. — Androscoggin; common summer resident, (Johnson). 

 Aroostook ; common summer resident, (Knight) ; rather common at Fort 

 Fairfield, (Batchelder, B. N. O. C. 7, p. 110), Cumberland; common summer 

 resident, (Mead). Franklin; common summer resident, (Swain). Hancock; 

 common summer resident, (Knight). Kennebec; quite common summer 

 resident, (Powers). Knox; summer, (Rackliff). Oxford; common, breeds* 

 (Nash). Penobscot; common summer resident, (Knight). Piscataquis; 

 common summer resident, (Homer). Sagadahoc ; common summer resident, 

 (Spinney). Somerset; common summer resident, (Morrell). Waldo; com- 

 mon summer resident, (Knight). Washington; very abundant summer resi- 

 dent, (Boardman). York; quite common summer resident, (Adams). 



The species arrives from May sixth to the twelfth near 

 Portland, according to Mr. Brown, and remains until October. 

 At Bangor the date of arrival on the average is May fourteenth, 

 sometimes a few days earlier, and the last day or so of September 

 sees the departure of the stragglers. They are common and 

 generally distributed throughout the entire State, and though 

 most generally noticed during the song period of spring and 

 early summer, they are nevertheless with us long after the oft 

 called for "teacher" has seen the young out of the nest and 

 taught them all worth knowing of bird life. 



The song of the species cannot be better represented than 

 in the oft quoted words of Mr. Burroughs, "Teacher, teacher, 

 TEACHER, TEACHER, TEACHER." I have frequently heard 

 this modified by individual birds to "Teacher, teacher, teacher, 

 TEACH, TEACH, TEACH." In spring and early summer 

 the males keep up this call by the hour, one answering the other, 

 often while perched on a limb, but quite as frequently while 

 on the ground. In general they are quite terrestrial in habits, 

 rustling about on the ground among the dead leaves which they 

 so closely resemble in color, and more generally feeding on the 

 ground. I have, however, seen them feeding in the lower 



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