Migration 
Chestnut - 
sided 
Warblers 
' Purple 
Martin 
but all such venturesome spirits descended again after more 
or less wide wandering and plunged headlong into the woods or 
thickets. By noon they were as quiet and reconciled to their 
surroundings as if they had passed the summer here, 
pThe most interesting birds which I saw were: 
Redstarts — 3.2.1. All in plumage of female and all, I 
think, young birds. One seen in pines, the 
others in maple swamp. 
Chestnut-sided Warblers — 3.1.1. All in birches and maples. 
One was an adult male with flank stripes as. 
broad and pure chestnut as in breeding plumage 
but with the crown and back green. The others 
showed no chestnut. 
Black-throated Green Warbler — 1 juv. ) Together, forming a 
Nashville Warbler — 11 " ) mixed flock, in pines 
Parula Warbler — 1 juv. male) and oaks on south side 
Chickadees — 5 ) of Ball’s Hill. I 
White-throated Sparrow(?) -- 2 ) did not fully identify 
the Sparrows but one 
imitation of ‘ fciiem came twice to 
my whistled in.v-iiat.i-an of the pea-pea-body bal1 and alighted 
(in dense foliage) within a few feet of my head. 
Maryland Yellow-throat — Two adult males in swampy thickets. 
One gave the flight song sotto voce 
and without leaving his perch. 
Oven-bird — A solitary individual in white pine woods. 
Least Flycatcher — A solitary individual in white pine woods. 
Very tame and perfectly silent. I got within 
ten feet of this bird and saw it distinctly in a 
good light. 
Purple Martin — A solitary young bird flying about over the 
meadows,calling, at 7 A, M. 
Red-eyed Vireo — a single bird in a pine on the hill. 
Solitary Sandpiper -- One flying high, calling. 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 
A young bird soaring in circles at a 
height of several hundred feet, perhaps 
migrating,for its general course was i. 
southward^ 
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