Ectoistes migratoria. 
Maine (Lake Umbagog). 
1871. i 
May 30- ij 
June 10. ii 
1873. ■ 
I 
Aug. 29. jj 
Sept. 1. ;i 
1874. 
Aug, 
4. 
10 . 
11 . 
18. 
20 . 
Oe 
1882. 
t.8-22; 
Common and seen nearly evory day, sometimes in pairs 
often in flocks of tworitv or more. 
Sav; several small flocks along the vrooded banks of 
Cambridge River above the dam. 
Abundant and now collecting into large flocks. 
Shot an adult male in fine plumage. 
Started three along the brook on Upton ’dill. 
Sav/ a pair flying over, high. 
Saw several along Peaslee’s Urook. 
Saw a flock of about thirty flying over the v/oods 
near Leonard’s Pond. 
: Iri the blueberry pasture opposite Peaslee’s, found 
a flock of about a dozen. 
Killed two from a flock of about t\¥enty-five in the 
pasture opposite Peasloo’s. They come there for the 
blueberries and raspberries and are very tame. Their 
flight at times is swifter than that of any other bird 
that I know, and their habit of scaling and tv;isting 
then passing through the vroods makes them very difficult 
to shoot. 
One seen October 8; it is ve’y rare hero. 
