Portland, Maine
Birds noted in the City.
Date: June 14, 1908
Noted the following birds while
walking along State Street this
forenoon. (This beautiful street
runs down the hill through
the heart of the residential part
of the city. It is shaded by double
rows of large elms & bordered by
fine old houses with small gardens,
or grass plots about or behind them.)
    Merula mig. [Merula migratoria] 1[in full song], 4 or 5 seen.
1. Dendroica aestiva - 4 [males] singing.
2. Setophaga ruticilla -  1 [male] [singing] 
3. Vireo olivaceus -   1 [male] [singing] 
4. [?]-  1 [male] [in full song] 2 birds [singing?]
5. Passer domesticus - 3 or 4 seen & heard
6. Icterus galbula - 1 [male] [?]
7. Chordeiles virgin. [virgianus] - Heard previous evening.
8. Ampelis cedrorum -  Heard in garden
9. Chaetura pelagica - 3 or 4 flying over.

  In the afternoon I noted in a walk
along "Western Promenade":
D. aestiva [Dendroica aestiva] - 3 [male] singing
S. rutacilla [Setophaga ruticilla]  - 2 [male] singing
Carpodacus pur. [purpureus] - 1 [male] singing.

Wolfeboro, N. H. [New Hampshire]
Birds noted in village - both afternoon & early morning.
                            
June 16 & 17 1908     
Merula migratoria - 4
Dendroica aestiva  1 [in full song]
Vireo olivaceus - 1   [in full song]
Vireo flavifrons - 1   [in full song]
Progne purpurea - Large colony
Petrochelidon lun. [Petrochelidon lunifrons] - Several about [?]
Spizella socialis -  1 [in full song]
Icterus galbula -  1 [in full song]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
Tyrannus tyrannus -  1 [in full song]
Empidonax minimus -  1 [in full song]
Chaetura - 4 or 5
  Heard no Bobolinks. Did not
go into the fields to look for them.
Did not have time even to look
at the Eave Swallow colony.
It was cool & windy &
birds did not sing freely.
