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UPTON, MAINE 
1872 
June 2 -14 
Dendr oica vlr ens. Not common. 
D. caerules cens. Rather frequent in some parts of the woods. 
D. h 1 ack burniae Found them abundant and migrating on our arri¬ 
val, frequenting in small companies low bushes, brush piles and 
orchards; by the 5th all had left or retired to the tops 
of the forest trees. (Quite common breeding 73) 
D .«. castan ea. Migrating on our arrival, by the 5th their numbers 
were thinned nearly one half, (though they were still very num¬ 
erous) and they settled for the season. Detected the difference 
in song between this bird and D.tigrina; the notes of the pre¬ 
sent species are fewer and quicker (like zee zee-zee) than those 
of the Cape May whose song beqrs much closer resemblance to that 
of D.striatq, being composed of four or five feeble, though 
withal shrill repetitions of the syllable zee uttered in rather 
a slow measured tone and with a rising inflection. 
D. striata. Not common and migrating up to the 5th when they 
disappeared. Saw them all the way up from Bethel. 
D. tigrina . Common all the way up from the Notch. In dark and 
rainy weather they came out of the woods and fed among the thick¬ 
ets of low fir savins, hanging head downward at the extremity 
of the branches often continuing in one position for many mo¬ 
ments apparently picking out minute insects from under the 
leaves. In a clump of blossoming plum trees directly under our 
window, in the garden, we were always sure of finding several of 
them: hither they resorted in company with numbers of Humming¬ 
birds, which, hov/ever, they were continually chasing about; 
