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THE OSPREY. 



the first week in June. Three pairs were all we saw the large end, — with lilac or purplish-brown. The 



in a journey of some loo miles, and these at long dis- Pygmy Nuthatch was frequently heard. They build 



tances from each other. They frequent the icy, tur- in the soft parts of the dead pines and firs, excavat- 



bulent mountain streams, seeming to share with the ing the cavity (in all cases we noted) in the main 



Ouzels the love for the noisiest parts of the rivers, trunk, selecting the portion where the bark had 



During the breeding season they are very shy and fallen away. The cavity is very small, the opening 



retiring, being seldom seen in pairs, the male and being barely an inch in diameter and frequently at a 



female remaining separated and frequenting different height of 30 to 40 feet. The first set, of 6 slightly 



parts of the stream. incubated eggs was taken June 3, 20 feet up in a dead 



"The Western Robin was very common at from oak stump. On the 12th a set of 6 pipped eggs was 



3500 to loooo feet altitude, breeding in every con- found in a cavity 40 feet up in a dead pine stump. 



ceivable locality, but 

 more particularly along 

 streams and near mead- 

 ows. The first nest 

 found contained 3 fresh 

 eggs. May 22, altitude 

 3500 feet. From then 

 on until the first week 

 in July sets in all stages 

 of incubation were 

 found, and were as 

 often of three eggs as of 

 four. The nests were 

 nearly all placed lower 

 than 25 feet from the 

 ground, and were al- 

 most without exception 

 festooned with bunches 

 of Spanish moss droop- 

 ing sometimes six inches 

 below the nest. 



"Between 3500 and 

 6000 feet altitude Pile- 

 ated Woodpeckers were 

 quite common but diffi- 

 cult to approach. No 

 evidences of nesting 

 were observed, though 

 a female shot on May 

 26 had evidently been 

 incubating from the ap- 

 pearance of her abdo- 

 men. At this altitude 

 Hermit Warblers were 

 very numerous, but the 

 most diligent search 

 failed to reveal a nest, and the same way with West 



WILLIAM BREWSTER AT PINE POINT CAMP 

 UMBAGOG, ME. 



These two nests were 

 at 4600 feet altitude, 

 and on the 14th at 6000 

 feet, I took 7 slightly 

 incubated eggs from a 

 cavity 10 feet up in a 

 dead pine. On the 15th 

 7 well incubated eggs 

 were noted in a cavity 

 15 feet up in a dead oak. 

 On the 1 2th a set of 8 

 half-incubated eggs was 

 found in a pine stub, 

 the cavity being about 

 15 feet up. These last 

 two sets were at 4600 

 feet altitude. The sets 

 show little variation, 

 except a slight differ- 

 ence in a light and dark 

 shade of brown. 



"Although both 

 Calaveras and Macgilli- 

 vray's Warblers were 

 very common between 

 3500 and 6500 feet alti- 

 tude, the only nest 

 found was one of Mac- 

 gillivray's, placed in a 

 small bush about one 

 foot from the ground, 

 and contained, June 15, 

 4 eggs typically marked. 

 The nest was a neat, 

 deeply cupped one of 

 dried grasses, bark 

 strips and rootlets, lined with hair and fine hair-like 



-LAKE 



ern Evening Grosbeaks. On May 30 I shot a female rootlets and fibers. 



Black-throated Gray Warbler with the last egg of her "One set of 6 slightly incubated eggs of Mountain 



set in the oviduct. Chickadee was found on June 15 in a cavity in a 



"On June 3 a nest, four eggs and parent of Deu- dead saw stump, only 3 feet from the ground. The 



droica aitduboni were taken from the top of a small nest was composed almost entirely of bits of gray 



cedar sapling about 6 feet high. The nest was squirrel fur, matted into a soft downy bed. The eggs 



of beautifully woven gray catkins, bark strips, fine were pure white, very faintly and sparsely spotted 



grasses and weeds, resembling very much an elabor- with light brown. On the 23d a nest of 10 young was 



ate nest of D. <,-sti7'a, and lined with hair, feathers found. The nest was of the usual bunch of squirrel 



and grasses. The eggs were of a creamy ground fur placed in a natural cavity 6 feet from the ground 



color, beautifully spotted and wreathed — chiefly about in a rotten black oak overhanging a small stream. 



