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among a tangle of fallen trees, was situated about two 

 feet from the ground on the side of a moss-covered 

 stump, deeply sunken in the soft green moss, which 

 covered it above, though the eggs were visible from the 

 outside. It was a bulky, compact mass of the same moss, 

 with a few bits of arbor vitas and one or two sticks, thinly 

 lined with grass-stems and rootlets ; its outer diameter 

 four and a quarter, depth four ; inner diameter two, 

 depth one and a half. The four nearly fresh eggs were 

 precisely like those just described in ground-color and 

 markings, but ran a trifle larger, the extremes being 

 0.67X0.51 to 0.70X0.54. (Bull. Nutt. Club, iv, 1879, 

 p. 241.) 



It may be added that a sixth nest, taken by Mr. N. A. 

 Eddy on an island in Penobscot Bay, June 13, 1880 

 was similarly circumstanced, and the eggs were not dif- 

 ferent from those described above, though ranging a little 

 less in size — not over 0.65 Xo. 5 l (Bull. Nutt. Club, 

 V, 1880, p. 24 l) 



