Arrivals Pyranga rubra [Piranga rubra]
MAINE, (L. Umbagog. [Umbagog Lake]) Song of D. Blackburniae [Dendroica blackburniae], Habits of winter wren
1876.
Saturday
May 27 [Saturday May 27, 1876] Clear and hot with W. [west] wind. Off after
breakfast with S. [William Stone] taking the Stone road.
Found birds rather more abundant
than yesterday both as to species &
individuals, and most of them sang
vigorously. Arrivals were Hel. peregrina [Helminthophila peregrina]
[male & female], My. Canadensis [Myiodioctes canadensis] abdnt. [abundant] [delete]Contopus borealis one[/delete] C. virens [Contopus virens] one
D. Castanea [Dendroica castanea] [male], Chordeiles popetue
several, S. noveboracensis [Seiurus noveboracensis] several, Pyranga rubra [Piranga rubra] 1 [male], Shot about
12 birds the best T. hyemalis [Troglodytes hyemalis] 1, D. Black. [Dendroica blackburniae]
5 males, Sp. varius [Sphyrapicus varius] 2 [males], P. rubra [Piranga rubra] [male]
The Blackburnians [Dendroica blackburniae] were very abundant
and I frequently heard six or
seven males singing at once.
Their song is somewhat like Parula's
and may be represented by the
syllables tsup, tsup, se-se-se with the
last three notes on a higher key than the
first two. The vegetation took quite a
start to day and this evening at
sunset. I noticed that the birches
were beginning to look green. The 
winter wren is about the shyest bird
in spring that I have ever tried to
shoot; it is almost impossible to get
within range of them or to see them
when you do. I saw one go down between
the logs of a rough bridge and going to the
spot I walked out on the structure quietly
and watching intently I soon spied the
little fellow hopping about directly beneath
my feet chasing spiders and picking an
acquatic [aquatic] insect off the surface of a pool
of water. The song of this species is one of the
best one hears here. It is very like the
notes of a music box in tone and method of 
delivery. Spent the whole P.M. skinning birds. 