1873. 
' '; . II 
Sapt.22, 
15379. 
May 25. 
Juno 9. 
“ 113. 
20 . 
“ 24. 
1980. 
Juno 53, 
Pornlrooca caoruloscons . 
Maine (Lake- Urnb; «. ,i, 
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' Cai i upon ir<'o? o? ' /•) ; oung >irds Li first 
plunago, attondod by both .roots. Tho family moved 
rapidly through tho -roods, kospins rather love down, tho 
you;, trrit>rij, loudly a; d incessantly. One note of 
> adulis s< ft oluch precisely lik 
Several along tho banks of Cambridge Rivor. Their 
ordinary note is exactly like that of tho Junco. 
A single nalo singing in tho woods. 
Common bolovr tho Dixvillo notch. 
Q 
Sot A-4. — Incubated ; bout four clays. ^'Most in 
3 t directly under a large prostrate log and about fif~ 
toon inches above tho ground. Male singing about thirty 
yards off. Tho fomalo started from tho nest when I was 
about fiftoon foot a ray and quickly rotor .od, chirping 
incessantly, when tho male joined tor and flitted about 
noar by quivering and trailing his -rings, and spreading 
his tail. Tho locality was a hillside covered with 
spruce and beach rith an undergrowth of 
fr '.i a up aro • uch i>oro abundant along tho Anovor road 
than I have over found them >lsovhoro in this region, 
I think thoy prefer higher land than th t about tho 
hake. I hoard thro-' males singing -.t :>no time to-day, 
and many single ones, all in roods -are Vi burnun lanta— 
Ii£iiiL2£. formed toe only undergrowth, there being no ground 
hemlock or young °irs 
5 
Abundant in af ton 
bch. 
A last yoar’s nest in Ye xr. Like tho two found 
last '-reek, , ,ci • alike tho one tak >;•. last year, it was 
placed in the fork of an upright spray and doald bo 
sao;. several rods off. Those nest;., with their thick 
-rail,, of in:-or felted bark and lining of black rootlets, 
aro at ones diet ini uish :r 11 sc of ny otl >.r ab¬ 
ler breeding horo.^r 
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