548 THE BIRDS OF MAINE 



at rapid intervals and uttering a sharp chirp. The nest was 

 on a narrow strip of land with a pond on one side and the 

 over-flowed marsh on the other. The nest contained but four 

 eggs. Incubation fresh." This nest, Mr. Morrell told me, on 

 one of our first trips up the pond, was the only one he ever 

 located, though it was a fairly common nester about the pond. 

 In June, 1900, Mr. Morrell and I made several trips up the 

 pond near his home in Pittsfield, and one of the birds we par- 

 ticularly sought was the Water Thrush. Several pairs were 

 seen about the shores of the pond and on the small islands in 

 the pond. On June 9th, while near the locality he mentions 

 finding the nest in '93, while photo'ing nests of Parula, Oven- 

 bird, Red-winged Blackbird, Bronzed Grackle, Tree Swallows, 

 and several others, I came upon a pair of anxious Water 

 Thrushes. Watching the birds I thought to see them feed the 

 young, which I presumed they had. I watched a long time 

 but the birds were wary and had no idea of giving the nest- 

 site away, so I began a search about the stumps and roots 

 along the shore of the pond. While looking about the roots 

 of a large rock maple stump, I discovered a nest with four 

 young, evidently about two weeks old. When the parent birds 

 saw me examining the nest they made a great deal of fuss 

 about it. The nest was well concealed by being well hidden 

 under a root of the stump and well covered over with weeds 

 and ferns. It was placed about two rods back from the water's 

 edge on dry ground. We got a photo of the nest and young. 

 Soon after, I was looking about in a similar place, not many 

 rods from the first nest, when I came across another nest at the 

 base of a small clump of hemlocks, well concealed by the over- 

 hanging branches and weed-stalks that grew in abundance 

 about the clump of bushes. This nest, too, contained four 

 young, seemingly not more than a week old. Both these nests 

 were made up of very similar material as that Mr. Morrell 

 described in his notes as above. 



