Anorthura hiomalis. 
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Maine (Lake Umbagog). 
1871. 
May 30- Common. The males sang at all times of the day but 
June 10. especially in the early morning and just at sunset. 
So shy vrero they, that we did not take a single speci¬ 
men, and only once did I get so much as a sight at one. 
1872. 
June 2-14 Although these Wrens were numerous and continually 
' singing wo did not succeed in getting a shot at any of 
them. 
1874. 
Aug. 1. Heard a male in full song. 
" 5. Came upon a large brood of young near the Stone 
Path. They were very tame, one of them coming up al¬ 
most v/ithin reach of my hand as I stood motionless. 
They kept up a continual calling in fine, shrill vdiist- 
ling tones, v/'hich reminded me of that of certain Thrushes 
during the breeding season. 
1876. j 
May 26., Singing every v/hore and much more steadily and ener¬ 
getically than I ever hoard them before. 
“ 27. This species is about the shyest bird in spring that 
I have ever tried to shoot. It is almost impossible 
to got within range of one or to see him when you do. 
I saw one to-day go down betv^'oon the logs of a rude 
bridge and walking out on the structure very cautiously 
spied him hopping about directly under my foot chasing 
spiders and occasionally picking an aquatic insect from 
the surface of a pool of water. The song of tliisWren 
is one of the best to be heard in this region. The 
notes are remarkably like those of a music box both in 
tone and method of delivery. 
“ 28. A male sings at all times of the day in the v/oods 
behind the house and once or twice I have heard him in 
the wood-pile near the barn. 
Jflne 22. They sing very little nov/’, and only, in early morn¬ 
ing and again at sunset. 
1879. ■ 
May 24. The woods are filled with their delicious music. 
As I was sitting on a log in a secluded glen one came and 
sang v/ithin ten yards of me. While singing his tail -,yas 
depressed, and in the intervals betv/een the songs ho 
bobbed up and down v^ith a bowing motion. 
