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is the latest. September 25, 1897, is the 

 latest I have seen it in the fall. This 

 year I noted its arrival May 6. June 

 1/, 1898, while descending a steep bank 

 in a small piece of woods, a female 

 flushed from nearly under my feet and 

 I discovered its nest, which contained 

 three young and one egg with one side 

 crushed. The nest was loosely con- 

 structed of pine needles and shreds of 

 bark and leaves, lined with fine roots 

 and horsehair, situated on a bank in 

 the edge of some brush at the foot of a 

 small hemlock tree. May 24, 1899, I 

 saw a pair building near the same 

 place, and June 2 there were three eggs 

 in the nest, and no more had been laid 

 June 5. The nest was composed of 

 leaves, shreds of bark, pine needles 

 and grasses, lined with hoi'sehair and 

 situated in a hollow beside a stump on 

 a steep bank. The eggs measure .72x 

 .52, .71X.53, .69X.50 in. June 8 I saw 

 this pair building again and June 18 

 five eggs were in the nest, which was 

 built up under some brush of the same 

 materials as the former one. Incuba- 

 tion of the eggs was from fresh to well 

 begun, showing that the bird had been 

 sitting on the nest from the time the 

 first eggs were laid. The eggs measure 

 .75X.52, .75X.52, .72x.50, .71x.50, .70x.51 

 in. June 21, I saw this pair building 

 again, but did not disturb them. A pair 

 ■ — probably the same ones, nested there 

 this last summer. The nest was found 

 after the young had left it. 



NASHVILLE WARBLER. 

 This is a common migrant and fairly 

 common summer resident. The earliest 

 date I have for its arrival is May 7, 

 and the latest May 22, and the latest 

 seen in the fall is September 23. This 

 year it was first seen May 13. June 6, 

 1894, a nest of five eggs was found by 

 F. A. Garcelon in Lewiston. The nest 

 was in a hollow on the ground in a 

 pasture. June 6, 1896, I found a nest 

 in Buckfield containing five badly in- 



cubated eggs. June 3, 1899, my brother 

 and I Were out, at Lisbon, and he 

 flushed a bird from its nest which after 

 two hours watching I identified as the 

 Nashville Warbler. The nest was com- 

 posed of grasses and moss, lined with 

 horsehair, situated in a hollow on the 

 side of a hummock on the ground in a 

 pasture. Incubation was slight and the 

 five eggs measured .70x47, .69x.47, .68x 

 .47, .69X.47, .69X.46 in. 



TENNESSEE WARBLER. 



June' 4, 1895, C. D. Farrar found a 



nest of this species in South Lewiston, 



containing four badly incubated eggs. 



The female was shot for identification. 



NORTHERN PARULA WARBLER. 

 This is a common migrant and a fair- 

 ly common summer resident. My ear- 

 liest date for its arrival is May 7, and 

 the latest is May 22, and September 23 

 is the latest I have seen it in the fall. 

 May 31, 1899, C. D. Farrar and myself 

 found a colony of Parulas nesting in 

 the Wales Bog at the head of Sabatis 

 Pond. We found six nests, but only 

 one of them contained eggs. This nest 

 was built of usnea moss, hanging on a 

 horizontal limb of a hackmatack tree, 

 about 12 fe"et above the water, and con- 

 taining five well incubated eggs. June 

 11, 1899, a female was seen near the 

 same place, lining its nest, and June 17 

 four eggs had been laid. The nest was 

 bujlt of usnea moss, with a little hair- 

 like filament for lining, situated eight 

 feet high, on a small dead limb of a 

 hackmatack tree, on a small floating 

 island. The eggs measure .69x.47, .69x 

 .46. .69X.46, and .68x.45 in. June 17, 

 1900, another nest was found contain- 

 ing five eggs. The nest was composed 

 of usnea moss, lined with a few hair- 

 like strips of milkweed Stalk, hanging 

 from a horizontal limb of a hackma- 

 tack tree situated in Green Bog at the 

 head of Sabatis Pond. The nest was 6 

 feet above the water. The eggs meas- 

 ure .74X.52, .73X.52, .73x.51, .72x.51, and 



