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infrequently heard intermittently up to the middle of October. 

 On October 13, 1903, one sang his full song twenty-eight times 

 between 5:30 and 5:45 a. m. Many tailless birds in their moult 

 are seen in late August and in September. Song Sparrows are 

 very numerous in the fall migration movements along roadsides 

 and on the bushy borders of fields. 



121. Melospiza lincolni lincolni. IvIncoln's 

 Sparrow. 



A not uncommon fall migrant and possibly a rare summer 

 resident. In 1906 a bird was clearly seen on August 5 in a dead 

 spruce tree at the border of an evergreen thicket on the side of 

 Boy Mountain. Mr.G.B. Wellman was with me, and we both had 

 a full view of the bird for its sure identification. It was moving 

 about on the boughs of the tree. A Hudsonian Chickadee was 

 in the same clump of trees. The bird was not seen again, and 

 no other Lincoln's Sparrow was seen until September 8, which 

 is about the date of the earliest appearances of migrant birds in 

 the series of years. On September 3, 1910, a bird was seen by 

 Mr. Maurice C. Blake and myself at a wood border near Little 

 Cherry Pond, this constituting the earliest of my September 

 records. The August 5 record, therefore, is suggestive of a 

 local nesting, perhaps not far from where the bird was seen ; 

 although the song had not come to my hearing when from time 

 to time I had traversed the mountain side. Mr. Ora M. Knight 

 in his "Birds of Maine" states that in 1904 a few Lincoln's 

 Sparrows were seen in early July at Fort Kent in the Woolas- 

 took Valley, Aroostook County, and that in early August, 1905, 

 they were more numerous. His conclusion is that these repre- 

 sented breeding pairs and nestings, although no nests were 

 found or young seen. On one other occasion in August, namely, 

 August 21 and 23, 1908, a Lincoln's Sparrow was seen by the 

 roadside on the Highland. No other individual was seen .until 

 September 13 of that year. This bird, therefore, was eighteen 

 days in advance of the usual earliest record date of migrants 



