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OVENBIRD. 

 Common summer resident. My ear- 

 liest date of its arrival is April 23. 

 June 9, 1894, I found a nest in the 

 woods at the head of Sabatis Pond, con- 

 taining four eggs. The bird ran from 

 the nest along the ground like a mouse. 

 The nest was composed of dry leaves 

 and pine needles, ovenshaped, situated 

 on the ground under a hemlock bush. 

 The eggs measure .81x.62, .80x.61, .80x 

 .60, .78X.62 in. June 8, 1895, another 

 nest was found in the woods near Lew- 

 iston. It was oven-shaped, composed 

 of leaves, fine roots and pine needles, 

 lined with horsehair and situated on 

 the ground under a running blackber- 

 ry bush. The eggs measure .86x.62, 

 .82X.62, .82X.61, .81x.62 in. June 10, 

 1896, a nest with four eggs was found 

 at Buckfield and June 15, 1898, I found 

 a nest in Lewiston containing young. 



WATER THRUSH. 

 Not very common in spring. May 13 

 is my earliest day of its arrival and 

 last seen May 30 and one was seen 

 Aug. 21. 



MOURNING WARBLER. 

 I gave this as a rare migrant in the 

 "List of Maine Birds" but it was a 

 mistake as I do not know of its occur- 

 rence here. 



MARYLAND YELLOWTHROAT. 



Common summer resident. My ear- 

 liest date of its arrival is May 7 and 

 the latest I have seen it in the fall is 

 Oct. 3. May 28 is the earliest I have 

 found a full set of eggs and June 8 the 

 latest. June 5, 1887, I found a nest at 

 Sabatis containing four eggs. The 

 nest was on the gi'ound in a bunch of 

 dry grass in a swampy place, compos- 

 ed of leaves and dry grass, lined with 

 fine grasses. The eggs measure .64x.52, 

 .63X.53, .63X.52, and .63x.52 in. June 8, 

 1890, I found another nest containing 

 four eggs. The nest in this case was 



in a bunch of grass, about IJ ft. above 

 the ground. 



WILSON'S WARBLER. 

 Not very common migrant. My ear- 

 liest date for its arrival is May 7 and 

 latest seen June 8. Have seen about a 

 dozen in all. 



CANADIAN WARBLER. 

 Fairly common migrant and rare 

 summer resident. My earliest date of 

 its arrival is May 22. June 4, 1893, I 

 saw a pair in Greene that kept chip- 

 ping around but I could not find any 

 nest although I am sure they had one 

 there somewhere. July 4, 1898, while 

 going through the woods on my place 

 at Buckfield I saw a pair of this species 

 chipping around as if they had young. 



AMERICAN REDSTART. 

 Very common summer resident. My 

 earliest date of its arrival is May 6 and 

 the latest May 14 and the latest seen in 

 the fall is Sept. 27. I have found num- 

 berless nests of this species, my earliest 

 set being June 3, and the latest June 

 30. Four is the usual number of eggs 

 laid, rarely five, and I have found sev- 

 eral nests with the cowbird's egg in it. 

 June 8, 1891, a nest was found at Lis- 

 bon Centre containing four eggs. It 

 was composed of fibres of bark, birch 

 and wool, lined with hen's feathers 

 and a few horsehairs and situated in a 

 maple sapling, about 7 ft. high. The 

 eggs measure .65x.50, .65x.49, .64x.49, 

 .64X.48 in. 



AMERICAN PIPIT. 

 Fairly common fall migrant. Oct. 

 23, 1898, F. A. Garcelon saw a large 

 flock on plowed ground near Lewiston. 

 W. F. Burbank saw numbers of them 

 at the head of Sabatis Pond in Oct. 

 1899, and Oct. 17, 1900, saw a number 

 of flocks in the same place. 



EVERETT E. JOHNSON. 

 Lewiston, Me., Dec. 20, 1900. 



