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UPTON, MAINE 
1871 
40. D, Blackburniae , Common, Affected the mixed woods where 
both sexes kept always in the tops of the highest beech and 
birch trees. A female taken June 9th showed no signs of 
approaching incubation and they probably breed very late. The 
song of the male was short and unmusical ending in a high trill 
This Warbler though abundant was scarce in comparison with 
B.castanea, maculosa and tigrina. 
41, D,castanea . Extremely abundant, in fact the most so of 
any bird in the region. Affected principally the mixed woods, 
though found everywhere except in some of the cedar swamps. 
Kept always in the very tops of the highest spruce trees, and 
would frequently sing fifteen minutes or more in one place with¬ 
out apparently moving or exposing itself to view, and was ac¬ 
cordingly a very hard bird to shoot. Slow and sluggish in all 
its motions like D.striata, it was never found encased in fat 
like that bird. We very seldom saw them in any of the decidu¬ 
ous trees. Their song was a shrill feeble sheeping note, re¬ 
peated three or four times and varying considerably in different 
individuals, sometimes scarcely distinguishable from the ze-ze- 
ze of Regulus satrapa, at others more musical and warbling like 
that of S.ruticilla. Their nests of which we found several, 
were very large and bulky and scarcely distinguishable from 
that of Car.purpureus. All were built in spruce trees on hori¬ 
zontal boughs near the extremity, at the height of about twenty 
feet: one taken June contained two, another June 9th tree 
fresh eggs. 
