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UPTON, MAINE 
1872 
June 2-14 
by June 3 we took a fully formed egg but without the shell 
from a £ and a little later judging from the bare corrigated 
skin on the breast and abdomen of several individuals of the 
sme sex, they were all incubating; thus they must be nearly 
the first warbler to breed in this region. 
10 * Eh_^ e Ji.iva. Very rare; a single pair among the plum 
trees in the garden June 4. Did not detect it anywhere on the 
road up though it was observed at Bethel last year by Mr. May¬ 
nard. 
11 • Myiodioctes pusillus . Saw perhaps half a dozen specimens 
during the first of our stay: they frequented the brush heaps 
and thickets along the wood edges and had all disappeared by 
the 5th, 
Pyra ng a rubra . Beard a single specimen a mile or two north of 
the notch. 
12. Vireo Philadelphicus . Three specimens were taken, all fe¬ 
males. The first was shot by Mr. Deane June 3 from the top of 
a tall beech tree and was silent: the next day he secured an¬ 
other in a thicket of firs and heard it distinctly utter a 
rather Sylvicolim chirp. June 5th I was so fortunate as to fall 
in with the 3rd individual and watched it for several moments 
before shooting: it was in a small birch tree growing in a fir 
grove, and looked extremely small: in its motions it resembled 
the rest of the species but was even more slow and deliberate 
tnan any of them, hopping heavily down from one branch to an¬ 
other: I was quite certain that I heard the chirp described 
