Hylocichla ustulat us swainsoni 
Lake Umbagog 
Pine Point . 
1396, 
• June 7. Song. 
( 2 ) 
utterly wretched. At the time I supposed that this effect was due 
to the mood I happened to be in, but next day the same bird sang 
in the same way and with the same effect. The morning and evening 
singing about our camp has seemed to me delightful and I have 
looked forward to it through each day. 
Although the Swainson's Thrushes had apparently all ar¬ 
rived and taken up their summer quarters in the Pine Point woods 
before we opened the camp (May 21), they were very silent for the 
first week. Indeed during the remainder of May I seldom heard 
more than one or two songs (not singers) in any one day and these 
at daybreak or in the evening twilight. General and sustained 
singing began quite abruptly on June 2 after which we heard the 
song everywhere we went and more or less at all hours. But imme- 
* 
diately about our camp the birds were more numerous than anywhere 
else. They invariably opened the bird concert at daybreak and 
closed it in the late evening twilight. I never heard one sing 
during the night. These umbagog Thrushes seem to me to sing dif¬ 
ferently from the White Mountain birds. The song has, I think, 
more variations here. Our camp bird introduced a wee- e-o -wee- e-o 
bar every half minute. 
