Song of D. tigrina [Dendroica tigrina], D. striata [Dendroica striata], Curvirostra Am. [Curvirostra americana].
Mass (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]  Breeding note of Pipilo erythropthalmus [Pipilo erythrophthalmus]
May 20 - 1875
May 20 [May 20, 1875] Clear with high wind. Rose at 6 and had
Charles drive me up to Waverley where I
spent the forenoon on the hill. Took 14 birds
the best D. tigrina [Dendroica tigrina] [male], Hy. Ludoviciana Hy [Hydemeles ludoviciana] 2 [males],
D. caerulescens [Dendroica caerulescens] 1 [male], etc. The Cape May warbler was
among low cedars in the same place
where Mr. Whitney shot one on the 17th.
It was singing in the same way as
one seen near our house at Watertown in 
the spring of 1869 - a rather feeble, trilling
strain very like a variation of the
redstart, or one of Parula Am. [Parula americana], but
recognizably distinct from either, and
quite different from the decided summer
song in Me. [Maine] It was excessively fat - indeed
all the birds are this season, sparrows, 
warblers & thrushes indifferently which
fact is I think attributable to the very
slow advance of the season which
keeps the birds weather bound, and
prevents the full development of that
restless migratory tendency so inimical
to obesity. Dend. coronata [Dendroica coronata] is still very
abundant and I saw a [female] D. palmarum [Dendroica palmarum]
the last of the season. Turdus Swainsoni
was singing in usual places this morning.
Heard another red crossbill practising and
several times caught the distant call note
of individuals that were flying about over
the woods. Heard the low love note of Pipilo 
erythropthalmus Pipilo erythrophthalmus] which I believe I never noted
before though it has occasionally come to
my notice  - a feeble ze-eep. Shaking an
old stump in the Waverley swamp I was
much delighted at the sudden appearance