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UPTON, MAINE 
1874 
August 5-6 
of a very small size. Unlike last season I rarely see or hear 
this bird near the Lake House and what few I have seen elsewhere 
have the habits of the species in fall, I have been utterly un¬ 
able to detect either D.tigrina or H.peregrina within the last 
few days and think that the bulk of both species have already 
left here. I took a Set.ruticilla, a o of last year, that was 
beginning to moult his worn plumage: the new feathers that had 
already started indicated a fall plumage like the young: whether 
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the adult assumes this plumage or not I am at present uncer¬ 
tain. I heard two bird notes to-day that I was unable to de¬ 
termine: one was very like the Chip churr of Pyranga rubra and 
may have been the call of the young. 
August 6 . Clear and warm. Sprinkled a little in P.M. Off after 
breakfast with S. taking the Tyler road and going nearly over 
to the farm. Took 11 birds, the best H.peregrina 4, D.tigrina 1 
(im. & ) E.traillii 1 (y.y.), E.flaviventris 1 (adult % ), 
Trochilus colubris 1 (y.y.) Came across a brood of young E.tra¬ 
illii on Abbotts farm: they were in a thicket of low bushes 
and the young as of the former brood called cit qui wicky which 
the ^.reiterated the peep of alarm. The hummer was sitting on a 
high spruce and kept up an incessant shrill zeep which puzzled 
me for some time until I caught sight of its author. In an 
open second growth of birch and poplar we came across a large 
company of warblers f of which were H.peregrina and among them 
I shot the D.tigrina and a very young nestling of D.blackburniae. 
The first species had a chirp very (if not exactly) like that 
