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UPTON, MAINE 
1873 
August 10 - 11 
August 10 . (Sunday) Clear, warm and pleasant. Lounged around 
the house in the morning: in P.M. took a 3ail down to the 
mouth of the river with Smith. 
August 11 . Clear, rather hot but a fine day. After breakfast 
went out behind the barn and shot a D.tigrina y.y., a Parus 
hudsonlus y.y. (Plying) and two Sp.varius nestlings, Sialia 
sialis is getting quite common here, a sure indication that 
the migrations are commencing as it is rare in the breeding 
season. The note of P.hudsonius is not to be mistaken for 
that of P.atricapillus, it is shorter (I have heard only one 
note besides the lisping chirp common to all of the genus) 
and feebler like chee, shee-shee this note corresponds to the 
chick a dee dee dee of P. atri. Sp.varius is a very remark¬ 
able bird in its actions: it is tame almost to stupidity, 
or perhaps rather, like the woodcock and quail, it depends on 
concealment instead of flight for safety as it will allow me 
frequently to approach within a few feet and when fired at and 
missed, will flatten itself against the bark and remain per¬ 
fectly motionless. In P.M. went down river and took a brood of 
four very young nestlings D.caerulescens : both old birds were 
in attendance and the whole family moved rapidly along through 
the woods, flying from tree to tree, the young twittering loudly: 
one chirp or rather cluck of the adit, is precisely like that 
of Junco hyemalls. Took also a P.savania in nestl. plum, and 
a do. Troz.Hyemilis. Mr. Monheimer with a party of eleven ar¬ 
rived at 6 
