546 THE BIRDS OF MAINE 



The following account of the species is a reprint of the 

 article written by Mr. Swain and published in the Journal of 

 the Maine Ornithological Society for October, 1904, which is 

 briefly suplemented by a few extracts from the observations of 

 other persons. 



" This extremely interesting. Thrush-like Warbler seems to 

 be a migrant in* the southern counties of the State, but in the 

 counties of the Canadian fauna it occurs as a summer resident 

 more or less common in some localities and seemingly scarce 

 in others. I have observed it during the breeding season in 

 Androscoggin, Franklin, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Kennebec, 

 Oxford, Somerset and Waldo counties, while it is reported 

 as breeding at Fort Fairfield in Aroostook County (Batchelder, 

 Bull. Nutt. Oon. Club, VII, p. 110.) 



It arrives in Maine from May 1st to May 10th, usually about 

 the 10th to the 15th in the interior of the State. The first 

 arrival in the spring, I find in Capt. Spinney's notes, was seen 

 on May 15, 1901, on the lantern at Seguin Light. The first 

 mention I find in the notes of the late Clarence H. Morrell of 

 Pittsfield, was on May 14, 1894. I have not found it a com- 

 mon bird in Franklin County, at any time in the year, during 

 the fifteen years I have observed birds in that county. I looked 

 for it during spring migration for several years before it came 

 to my notice. I did not see it until the spring of 1893, I was 

 in Wilton in Franklin Couniiy, on the early morning of May 

 12. I was out on a swampy marsh bordering the shore of a 

 small pond. Suddenly a bird perched upon a low willow bush 

 and gave utterance to a very thrilling song. Knowing at once 

 it to be a new bird to me, I trained my glass upon it as it 

 perched in plain view, and soon saw it was a Water Thrush. 

 On May 18, 1902, Mr. Brownson first saw it in Portland and 

 I saw it the same year in Waterville on May 7, as will be seen 

 in Mr. Sweet's tabulation of the migration report of that year. 



Mr. George A. Boardman, in his list of the Birds of the 

 St. Croix Valley, mentions this bird as " common-breeds." 



