SiurijS naovlus , 
Maine (Jb&ko Umbagog). 
Juno - <%» 
14,' 
1874. 
Mot cor.tmm around the lake but literally summing in 
tha swampy thickets bordering Cambridge River abow the 
d&pn Thsre ms a striking uniformity in tha songs of 
difforant individuals of this speeies. The mala usually 
sings low down in tha darkest recesses of his retreat. 
Aug. 3. 
Saw one on Cambridge River. 
1870 . 
24 , 
Ona singing superbly on an Island in loonard’s Pond, 
Ms ringing war bio soundingall the finer from t h« pur- 
foot silence around. 
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I discovered this evening that the Water Thrush sing 
in the air like the Oven Bird, I saw one rise to tho 
height of soiheral hundred f*at above the tallest trees 
and then doseond, uttering its usual song, followed by a 
continued, tremulous, varied, and exquisitely tender 
warble. This termination is very similar to th&$ of 
tho Oven-bird, The bird descends on an incline piano.,/ 
A single male singing yesterday, Numbors heard 
today. 
At mid-day during a passing shearer a male soared 
above the woods singing in the a&anor all ready descri¬ 
bed. 
Juno 2 , 
A " L I host with four eggs incubated about eight days, 
placed in tho vertical side of a mil of earth adhoroing 
to the roots of n fallen tree overarched by the earth 
in which tho cavity had boon excavated for its reception. 
This was additionally protected, both from the weather 
sxnd observation, by a tangle of flexible earth-laden 
roots that hung down like a curtain before its entrance'. 
I brushed ^against this curtain while passing, when the 
sitting bird fluttered, out from behind it and tumbled out 
on tho gmm'd at my foot., simulating Isstaasss. She did 
not utter fchy sound, hovmvor, and the two males singing 
in tho vicinity did not como near the spot, Uf.c 
