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UPTON, MAINE 
1871 
two hundred of different species, many of them with broods of 
young. We found upon our arrival, all the birds settled down 
for the season and in full song. The number of birds in the 
woods was absolutely astonishing and far excelled anything that 4 
I ever saw in the most favored locality in Massachusetts. 
Perhaps the multitudes of flies and mosquitoes that everywhere 
swarmed had something to do with this, but be that as it may 
all species of small birds, and especially the warblers were 
excessively abundant everywhere. 
