538 THE BIRDS OP MAINE 



the parent bird engaged in incubating, seemingly oblivious to 

 my presence. The next day I returned again with my camera 

 in a pouring rain and made a number of exposures of the nest 

 and its surroundings. It had been hoped that there would be 

 opportunity to secure a view of the parent bird on the nest, 

 but it was necessary to cut away some of the foliage in order 

 to give an unobstructed chance to photograph the nest, and 

 after such indignity the parent bird absolutely refused to re- 

 turn and be photographed, though previously to my disturb- 

 ino- the foliage I had been able to approach within a foot or 

 two without driving the bird from the nest. The eggs 

 measured 0.72 x 0.51 and 0.65 x 0.49 inches. The larger egg 

 seemed to be marked rather typically though slightly larger 

 in size than normal, the other egg was about average in size 

 but the markings were much more distributed over the surface 

 and the spottings heavier and more frequent on the smaller 

 end portion of the egg than normal. 



This makes a total of eight nests actually found in the 

 Bangor Bog. The actual number of individuals of this species 

 nesting there each season must be well up in the scores if not 

 in the hundreds, as the bog in its entirety covers a space of 

 several square miles, a large portion of which is suitable for 

 the Yellow Palm Warblers to nest in and they are well dis- 

 tributed throughout the bog. A description of the locality 

 seems advisable as it will be equally typical of hundreds of 

 other similar spots in northern and eastern Maine where this 

 species of Warbler has been observed during the summer, and 

 must certainly breed. Perhaps I can best describe this bog by 

 quoting from a previous article (Cf. Knight, Contr. to Life 

 Hist. Yellow Palm Warbler, Jour. Me. Orn. Soc, Apr., 1904, 



p. 37): 



" From the northeastern part of the City of Bangor a road, 

 called Stillwater Avenue, runs from Bangor through Veazie 

 and Orono to the town of Stillwater, some ten miles distant. 

 At a point about half way to Stillwater, partly in Bangor, 



