Habits of the young warblers.
MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex county, Massachusetts]
1875. July 30 - 1875
July 30 [July 30, 1875] I took a very fair bag of 9 young birds, the
best D. virens [Dendroica virens] 2, D. pina [Dendroica pinus] 1, M. varia [Mniotilta varia] 1, S.
pusilla [Spizella pusilla] 1, D. discolor [Dendroica discolor] 2, I. Baltimore [Icterus Baltimore] 1, &
C. auratus [Colaptes auratus] 1. The habit of many different
species assembling together in one large
flock I find obtains here at this season
nearly as much as in Me. [Maine] I found to
day sparrows, warblers, titmice, wood-
peckers etc. keeping company indiscriminately,
often as many as one hundred or more
individuals being assembled in an
area of a few hundred yards. Very
few birds were singing in the woods.
I heard one tanager and an indigo 
bird but the only species that performed
at all frequently was S. pusilla [Spizella pusilla]. I found
a robins nest with 2 eggs & the parent
bird sitting thereon. In a swamp 
heard a note entirely new to me, 
a long drawn plaintive whistle uttered
with a rising inflection. Started a very 
large woodcock under apple trees but
he was so shy that I got only one
long shot and missed. Very few if
any birds have left us yet, except the
swallows: they are getting scarcer daily
and I hear and see them frequently
flying over at a good height. The 
sand martins are however still about
their breeding places and a few of
each of the other species are still
to be found in the meadows. Cicadas
are commencing to sing regularly
and I still hear a few - [delete]toads[/delete] toads
in the swamps.