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UPTON, MAINE 
1874 
August 29 
other as he disappeard in the thicket. The bird killed had his 
crop filled with larch needles. S. fired at a H.columba sitting 
but missed. I heard a P.arcticus and a Canada jay. 
August 29 . Clear and very hot. Off after breakfast with S. 
taking the Tyler road. Made a very good mornings work of it 
taking 6 good birds, 2 Vireo Philadelphicus, 1 D.blackburniae, 
1 H.peregrins, 2 My.canadensis adult, 1 Vireo solitarius. S. 
took 1 V.Phil. and D.castania and etc. He shot the first vireo 
when I immediately started after the heterogeneous assembly of 
warblers, chickadees and etc. among which he found it and soon 
detected and shot two. They were both very tame, uttered no 
note, and, contrary to observations made on this species in 
June 1872, appeared even more active in their motions than the 
other vireos and indeed quite as much so as any of the Dendro- 
icidae. Two of the three were in the act of eating a large 
greenish caterpillar when shot. They were all killed in a low 
second growth of birch and maple and I should judge their habits 
in this respect may be analogons to those of V.noveboracensis. 
I obtained S.’s specimen in exchange for the spruce grouse shot 
yesteday. Upon dissection they proved to be all & , one of them 
as I thought adult. One of the My.Can. was an adult & in fall 
plumage, a most beautiful bird: he was in full song. Birds of 
all kinds seemed very numerous to-day. We struck one flock of 
warblers which must have contained over 100 individuals. I find 
that a few Hirundo horreorum are still left: all the other 
species have, I think, left. We struck two broods of rf.grouse 
