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1916

31. Yellow Red-poll [Redpoll] Warbler. Occurring from April 12 to May 3 in about
normal numbers, i.e. but sparingly, four birds seen on April 30 [April 30, 1916] being
the greatest number noted in the course of any one day. They were met
with singly, for the most part, usually along wood edges and brush-grown
stone walls. On May 2 [May 2, 1916] two appeared in our apple orchard, interestingly
with hordes of Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler] assembled there. The male Red-poll [Redpoll] Warblers
uttered their feeble, halting songs not infrequently on some occasions but as
a rule were more nearly silent than are most migrating warblers of other kinds.

32. Oven bird [Ovenbird]. Arrived May 4 [May 4, 1916]. No obvious subsequent flight of migrants
bound further north. Local birds as common and generally distributed as usual. 
Eight males heard singing along half mile of Bigelow Road on May 28 [May 28, 1916].

33. Northern Water Thrush. I failed altogether to meet with this species but
Mr. Dexter reports hearing a male sing in Fairyland on May 8 [May 8, 1916].

34. Mourning Warbler. The full song of an unseen Mourning Warbler came
thrice to my ears in quick succession about 7.30 A.M. on June 5 [June 5, 1916], from
somewhere within the depths of the forsythia thicket in front of our farm house,
as I was standing near it.

35. Maryland Yellow Throat [Yellowthroat]. Arrived May 5 [May 5, 1916]. Rather more numerously
represented than usual, in May & June, about our Farm where as many as
four or five males might be heard daily. One frequented the Forsythia bushes in
front of the house and the shrubbery along the lane, another that bordering on
the cow pasture, a third the Run, two others the Berry Pasture. On
June 29 [June 29, 1916] I heard no less than six males singing along the edges of the
flooded river meadows lying between Davis's and Holden's Hills. A female was
seen collecting building material in the Berry Pasture on May 24 [May 24, 1916].