Viroo philadelphicus. 
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188 (i 
Maine 
(Lake 
Umbagog). 
(Juno 16;) One sings regulstrly in a narrov/’ strip of paper 
birches bordering the lake shore; I got within six foot 
of him to-day as he v/as among some lov/ v/-illows. ^'y for¬ 
mer descriptions of the song are accurate. I heard a 
:: new note to-day, a lovr v/hining, like that of Vireo gilvus. 
1’7. Tv/'o males singing to-day, one in hllinv/ood’s cloar- 
, ing, tho other near the Sargent covo. Tho former I saw; 
he v/as singing in a small paper birch, and I stood for 
sometime v/ithin ten feet of him. I again hoard the 
v/'hining note and carefully criticised the song which I 
can nov/ tell v/ith absolute certainty from that of 7ireo 
olivace ous; it is slovner, vath loss volume, and has a 
peculiar double syllabled note v/hich is always repeated 
tv/'ice. 
Have heard one singing daily in the same place for 
the 1 t two weeks in a bolt of young Birches and poplars 
bordering the lake shore. Searched every tree to—daj)" for 
the nest but could not find it. 
1881 . 
May 18. 
Shot a male in a small poplar near the Middle Dam. 
It v/as in a flock of V/arblers and v;as silent. 
A numfDor singing along the Ga ry road between Rich- 
ardson Lake and Umbagog. The open second-grov/'th of 
poplar arid birch over the burnt lands along this tract 
is peculiarly v/ell-suitod to the ha Mts of this spocieS 
v;hich is evidently much ri^ore numerous hero thaxi about 
Upton. I saw a rurmber- of old Vireo’s nests lovr dovm, 
some of \Yhich doubtless belonged to this specios. 
