165 
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1871. 
(Sopt.18} 
1874. i' 
Sopt.22.! 
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1875. i' 
Dporonis agilis. 
MiddloS'>x Coun y, Mass. 
Si;r shot, one a- r ino a.dul t .ina.lo . 
tvro. 
Searehod the Pr-sh Pond toorouglily but found only 
Started so/oral at Goiicord, one a!uonr{ donse birches 
on a hillside; their :\ote is almost precisely like that 
of the Mourniiig Warbler. 
Sept, 11,;; Tv/'o in tsio Maple SAYamp. Utt'ring a single loud, 
I sharp vibrating note that had a rnot.;.:.llic ring. 
II I* 
13. i: Tvro in a tliicket at the foot of Vassal lane. As I 
enterod the tjushos ey "'lew up ;'rom lee ground seeming 
to resent my intrusion, for t''iey uttered their sharp 
notes almost incessantly, each at tf.o same time walking 
up the branch on v/hicn it had alighted jerking up its 
tail at -froquentl intervals. I never observed eith'-^r 
of thes ' aci;ions before. I sho-t both. One was very 
fat, the other thin. 
1876. 
Sept.21. : Sav/ one distinctly at Concord. It flev/ from the 
II g. ound among some oak saplings on a dry hillside. 
j! 
i; Found the specimen seen on the 21st in precisely 
jj the same spot aiid sliot it. It vras excess! rely fat. 
emong bircnes on a dry hilltop (Concord). 
!j 
J among yellow pines on high land (Concord). 
1881. |! 
i: 
Sept.16. ^ In^i870-71, When He. shaw and I killed so many Coii~ 
i| necticut harbl )r3 in the'^^aple Swarp that place c^nprised 
|| three v;ooded islarr^.s, separated from each other by nar- 
j, now strips or open meadow, and surrounded bv broader 
|, stretches of the same interspersed with shallow pools ard 
I ditches. The islands were sufficiently elevated above 
wooded .m.th red mael es 'vhich east a dense shade and keo t 
tno soil beneath damp and cool in the dryest summer ‘ 
weather. FveryAvhore under the trees there -was also - 
"r^no^-"v^r^?c°;f^"" i^lira.aln^^ 
^r^lanchio ji jO v^dj^. A . botr-anium 
(tno latter rising among the maules to the h-i-nf“ 
twenty-five ar thirty feet), V^neirhjih. oori^ 
?ontusr ?u;- 
bon busii. Inoro v/oiv^ ni^n r>rr ■ ri i t 
>1 V ctJ,oQ c. 1 ,\f v/XXQ 8 ,iOD1g r. ^ 
now and then a swamp white oak, besides a sinwie e]ust-^ 
Of g.oy Dirchos and numerous native willows, oxpecially 
