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UPTON, MAINE 
1872 
June 2-14 
^• ? aru3 hudsonius . Pound them rather frequent in q certain 
tract of fir and spruce forest near the lake. This bird must 
breed twice in the season as several specimens in so perfect 
jblumage that no external marks distinguished them from the 
adult were clearly shown on dissection by the rudimentary con¬ 
dition of the genital organs and the softness of the skull to 
be birds of not more than three or four months of age, while 
other of both sexes were taken with those organs excited to the 
highest degree although none of them had, I think, actually 
laid. The young went in companies of six or eight frequently 
accompanied by a pair of P.atricapillus: they kept invariably 
in the thickest spruce trees usually near the top and were very 
silent, quiet and hard to detect: they had all the motions of 
P.atricapillus though perhaps a trifle less lively and animated, 
and the same emphatic chirp. Another note they also used which 
possibly was the song of the mate, a single che-day day, very 
different from anything I ever heard from the other bird, 
Ghrysomi t ris pinu s. Saw it twice, June 13 and 15. (Very abun¬ 
dant everywhere in company with C.tristis in 73). 
_ americana . Heard them passing overhead about June 
13. (Abundant and generally distributed in 73.) 
Passercui us savanna. Common all the way up from! B. On the very 
top of the great hill above the lake found these breeding in 
colonies in the dry mowing fields of English grass: I think 
there must have been at least fifteen or twenty pairs in our 
enclosure. 
