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Upper Megalloway River, Maine.
1898.
September 20
  Morning broke cloudy and rainy but blue sky began to
appear shortly after sunrise and most of the day was bright
and sunny although the sky was filled with clouds & there
was a violent N.W. wind. The smoky haze had evidently
disappeared.
[margin]Morning at
Parmachenee
Carry.[/margin]
  We pitched the tents last evening on the river bank opposite
the Carry in a thicket of alders under some tall firs
and paper birches. No Owls were heard during the night
but whenever I was awake I heard the calls of Warblers
and Thrushes passing southward. At daybreak this
morning a small party of Thrushes circles over us and
finally pitched down near the tents. The experience of the
past four weeks has convinced me that the nocturnal
flight calls of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak and the
Swainson's Thrush are practically indistinguishable. Early
in September I heard Grosbeaks come over Pine Point &
alight near my tent gradually changing the night call
into one of the diagnostic day notes. One of the Thrushes
heard this morning changed the same call in the
same way into the unmistakeable [sic] t-chur-r-r of
Turdus swainsoni.
[margin]Swainson's
Thrushes
migrating.
Their night
cry iden-
tified[/margin]
  As we were eating breakfast a number of small birds
came flitting about us in the alders. There were 5 or 6
Chickadees, about the same number of Parus hudsonius,
a Nashville Warbler, a Canada Nuthatch or two and
a young Wood Pewee! The last was very tame & I
identified it beyond any doubt. At daybreak I heard
a Peabody bird & a Swamp Sparrow sing several
times. A Pine Linnet was also heard passing
overhead and once I thought I caught the
piping note of a Pine Grosbeak in the far distance.