Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
1900.
July & August
(No 2)
 Sphyrapicus varius, one (W. Deane); Buteo lineatus, a pair with
young; Lanius l. migrans, one seen by Mr & Mrs. Emerson over their 
house in August.
  Turdus pallasii.- Hermits have been very numerous here this
season. At least three and I think four different
birds sang within hearing of our house through July and
I often heard as many as six or seven during a drive
of a few miles. Ordinarily they sang oftenest & most
freely in the early morning and late evening but during
the latter part of July one of the birds near the house
sang almost continuously through the entire day, once when 
the weather was clear & but usually only when it
was cloudy. At evening after singing they 
regularly called to one another from all parts of the
woods keeping it up for several minutes and giving the
chick, the night call (used in migration) and the bleating
cry in succession.
  The singing period came to an end rather abruptly and
very completely & generally early in August. After this
although we saw the birds occasionally we did not on
a single occasion I believe hear one of them make
a note of any kind.
  Vireo olivaceus.- A Red-eye which sang habitually in our
apple orchard near the house interpolated at short intervals 
among the normal notes of its song a perfect imitation
of the "three deer" cry of Contopus borealis as well as less
frequently a fairly good reproduction of the Bluebird's
warble. Abbott Thayer tells me that there are ordinarily
five or six Red-eyes on Monadnock which imitate Contopus borealis
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