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astook Valley, (Knight). Cumberland; common summer resident, fMead). 

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

 resident, (Knight). Kennebec; abundant summer resident, (Sanborn). 

 Knox; summer, (Rackliff). Oxford; common, (Nash). Penobscot; very 

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

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

 common summer resident, (Morrell). Waldo; common in 1894 and 1899 at 

 Islesboro, (Howe, J. M. O. S. 1900, p. 31) ; common summer resident, (Knight) . 

 Washington; very abundant summer resident, (Boardman). 



Mr. Brown found the species near Portland as early even as 

 May tenth, or from that date to the twenty-second it arrived 

 in spring, and remained until September or even to October 

 ninth. At Bangor it arrives about May fifteenth and the last 

 stragglers are gone by September twenty-eighth. In general 

 they frequent the rather open hardwoods, thickets, roadside 

 deciduous trees, clumps of tall shrubbery, the bushy and tree- 

 lined banks of streams and ponds, and in general rather open 

 deciduous growth. They prefer to keep well up in the foliage 

 as a rule, peering around the fcUiage and about the li mbs, eat- 

 ing various larvae of moths, butterflies, eggs of various insects, 

 beetles, lice and catching on the wing flies, mosquitoes, gnats, 

 perlids, caddis flies, winged ants and similar insects. As they 

 pass through the foliage in short flights, they have a peculiar 

 habit of expanding their tails so as to show the yellow or 

 salmon colored basal portions, also often drooping their wings. 



The male sings frequently, and I would render the commoner 

 type of song as "chee chee che pa-pa." In Warbler Songs, p. 

 26, it is variously rendered as follows: "che che che che-pa," 

 "wee-see, wee-see-wee," while Mr. Chapman is quoted as giving 

 it the utterance of "ching ching chee, ser-wee, ser-wee, swee 

 swee-e-e-e-." The female occasionally sings portions of these 

 notes. As alarm notes I have heard them utter a "c-h-e-a-p" 

 in a plaintive tone, but more often it is a "chip" or a "chick." 



The nests are placed quite variously, sometimes thirty to 

 forty feet from the ground in the crotch of a maple or elm, 

 occasionally in some other hard wood tree at a good elevation 

 but more frequently the nests are placed lower down, at heights 



