General observations. 
1880. {: 
i’ Maine (Lake Ilmbagog),. 
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Sept'olS.j; In the woods the voice of the 'lue Jay is nov/ near- 
ly as generally heard as in I'^assachTisetts. The Crows 
' are also very noisy now and seem to be perpetually en- 
I gaged in mobbing some ’’av/k or Owl. Hawks, by the v/ay, 
are exceptionally numei'ous this season. One of unuSual 
size and peculiar markings, which I could not Identify, 
sat erect on the top of a stub by the river to-day. 
" 15-141^ A heavy north-east storm, threatening during the 
14th, broke on the morning of the 15th, lasting all that 
i day v/ith rain falling in torrents. There v/as ati ex- 
j traordinary flight of waders both days, Hluo-winged Teal 
|| appeared in num.bers never seen here before, at least witb- 
! in the last ten years. 
“ IG. I The poplars and birches about the J.-ake shores are 
fast turning yellow and an occasional red maple glows 
' like a pillor of flame against the back-ground of dark 
' spruces. 
Sept. 18. ;! The leaves are now turning fast and the woods show 
patches of brilliant coloring; yellow vdiero there are 
; poplars and birches, crimson where red maples abound . 
18bl. I' 
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I^ay 11. ii The season at bethel actually further advanced than 
i! at Portland, and nearly as forv/ard as at Cambridge, Mass, 
ij The maples, poplars and v/illov/s green-v/ith opening lea^'^os, 
i and the apple-trees nearly in blos-som. The fields ev'ry- 
whore, perfect green, the grass in favored places six 
■; inches high. Very little snow on the mountain tops and 
: none in the vallev/s. Birds even in advamee of tlie sea¬ 
son; the elms along the village streets filled v/ith mi- 
gEaoing Warblers, I identified Trogl ody tes aedon , Don- 
I droo-ca blackburniae , D. tigrina , D. corona ^ a. Progno 
i Chaot ura . Vir eo gil vus , and Prjipid onax mi nimus . 
j| On the 12th in fethel and vz-ithin six miles to the north- 
' vzard, I saw Icterus baltimore . (numbers) , Viroo olivace¬ 
ous (tvzo males singing), Harpor h ync us r uf us (two mal-s 
■hoard distinctly), Tvrarmus carolinens^ .s (sQV')!ral}'’.Hgi— 
) S£i_z.o.lla, .pu silla (one singing), Holmin'^hophil a porogr i na 
(ono4, .ITel minthophila rufic apillus , and several Dendroe- 
. . 0 ^ Ij_Q.nnsy 1 vafiica , D . virons , and S etophaga r tic i 11 a . 
i; The Vegetavion vzas pretty uniformly advanced till vze 
j neared uoo I.otch, when the trees became more and more 
bare and snow appeared on northern exposures; in the 
) Notch the trees were all leafless and only the elms, 
j| maples and vzillovzs in blossom. Masses or ice hung from 
i: the ledges abovo and extensive snovr drifts border the 
roadside. Only a few Hepatic as v/ero in bloom in the* 
opening. At Poplar Tavern I saw a vjmus ca rolinonsis 
' near Brooks’s just north of the Notch a pair”of ToTanus 
soliatiiiias., a Tygr annus caro l inens is, and all the Swallow s 
