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Peterborough, New Hampshire.
1898.
July 5 to
Aug. 15
(No. 15)
  Siala sialis. - Several broods of young with their parents
seen at different places in fields or pastures.
A male in full song July 17th, another warbling 
feebly August 9th.
  Merula migratoria.- Abundant up to July 20th but after
that date seen only occasionally and in small
numbers. In full song up to July 21st and heard
singing feebly on the 24th, after which all singing ceased.
  Turdus mustelinus.- One in mixed spruce and hemlock woods 
on the shores of Cunningham Pond, August 2.
It acted as if it had young following us about
and uttering the sharp challenge cry incessantly.
Nevertheless it may have been a migrant for I
visited the place many times afterward without
finding the bird again.
  Turdus pallasii .- If the Hermit Thrushes of this region 
suffered serious losses in the South during the terrible
winter of a few years ago (their numbers have
been since very materially diminished in most parts
of New England) they must have recovered very
rapidly for I have never seen them more abundant
than they have been here this season. During July
they were singing almost everywhere and in white
pine woods and old pastures growing up to pines
and spruces one night often hear two or three -and 
sometimes even four- males at once. They were
in full song up to and including August 2 when