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1872 
UPTON, MAINE 
June 2-14 
several occasions I shot the males in the tops of enormous 
heech or birch trees, seventy or eighty feet in height, grow¬ 
ing along the edge of the woods: in such situations they 
showed considerable activity, chasing insects among the branches 
and frequently singing. Although they sang from lofty exposed 
situations much oftener than the yellow throat, such habit so 
far from being the rule as noted last year I should now call 
rather the exception, the song usually coming from on or near 
the ground among the logs: it was short but exquisitely sweet 
with a warbling terminating the whole nearly like whees-whees- 
whees-whees, tu-tu-tu-tuo varying however in different individ¬ 
uals, in some much shorter whees-whees tuo tuo. Occasionally 
they sang in the air soaring high up like S. aurocapillus pre¬ 
fixing a few extra notes to the ordinary ones and at the end 
closing their wings and coming down as if shot to the ground. 
Hel. ruficapilla . Very scarce but generally distributed. (Not 
scarce in 73) 
H. perigrina . Quite as numerous as last year. 
Sciurus aurocapillus . Not more than three or four individuals 
observed. (Not scarce and gen. distributed in 73) 
Sciur us n oveb or acensi s. Not common around the lake but in the 
swampy thickets all the way up Cambridge river they absolutely 
swarmed: there is a striking uniformity in the notes of dif¬ 
ferent individuals of this species: they always sing low down 
and in the darkest depths of their retreats. (Young flying by 
June--73) 
