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UPTON, MAINE 
1872 
June 2-14 
I was first attracted to him by his loud ringing laugh kept up 
for nearly a minute without intermission until I wondered how 
the bird could get breath: this note resembled the spring song 
of Colaptes auratus very closely but was much louder and a 
trifle shriller. The female bird killed by Mr.Deane was hammer¬ 
ing an old prostrate log to pieces. 
Trochilus colubris . Quite common: observed for the first time 
the courting of the male which poising in air ten feet or more 
above the branch on which the female was sitting, darted down 
at an angle of 45 deg. almost brushing her back then rising on 
the opposite side, would turn, poise a moment and plunge down 
again,' repeating his shrill chirrup incessantly: this was kept 
up for a minute or more, when he would either fly off or settle 
lightly on some twig near his mate. 
7. Myiarchus crinitus . Took a male in a thicket of spruce and 
birch on the edge of a clearing: it was silent and shy. On 
the stage road down heard two individuals, one in Newery and 
the other in an old orchard about 2 miles to the north of Bethel. 
8. Empidonax traillii . In the swamps on top of the hill to 
the South of the lake, a mile from the Lake hbuse we found these 
birds in extraordinary abundance. In one place, especially, 
comprising about three acres of alder thickets with scattering 
poplar saplings along the edge they seemed to absolutely swarm 
and after we had shot twenty their numbers did not appear di¬ 
minished in the least. Their old nests were everywhere but al¬ 
though at this time (June 13) they were evidently settled for 
