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Peterborough, New Hampshire.
1898.
July 5 to
Aug. 15
(No. 16)
they ceased very abruptly and generally although I 
heard a bird singing continuously on the evening of 
August 6th and another at the same hour on the 
following evening. During July they sang more or less freely
through the day when the weather was cloudy or cool but
when it was clear and warm they were ordinarily silent
except in the early morning and at evening.
  I noticed that at evening, after finishing singing, they
regularly called to one another for several minutes before
going to sleep, using chiefly the low, whining canary-like
e-e-e-e but also giving, not infrequently, the clear,
whistling note which they use when migrating at night.
  Harporhynchus rufus. - Very common, especially in thickets
along the roadsides and in bush-grown pastures.
Silent during my whole stay.  
  Galeoscoptes carolinensis. - Abundant in thickets near the 
shores of Cunningham Pond and often seen
elsewhere along the brush-bordered roads. Heard in 
full song July 6, 20, 23 & 24.
  Troglodytes hyemalis [sic] hiemalis]. - W. Dean found two males in full song,
July 24, in deep woods near the brook on 
Ben Mere farm. Afterwards on July 29th I
heard what was probably one of these birds
singing in the bog near the house. 
  Sitta Carolinsensis. - Frequently heard calling near the house
on Ben Mere farm through July & the first week
of August. Also heard at the Howard's July 29.