568 THE BIRDS OF MAINE 



contained four fresh eggs. The nest was placed on the ground, 

 well hidden in a small clump of grass, at the foot of an alder 

 sapling. It was composed entirely of skeletonized leaves, dried 

 grass with one or two horse-hairs in lining, was a very frail 

 structure and came to pieces when removed. Its measurements 

 were: Outside diameter 3 inches; inside diameter If in.; 

 outside depth 2 in.; inside depth Ij in. Eggs measured: 

 0.58x0.45, 0.60x0.46, 0.60x0.45, 0.59x0.45. Both old 

 birds were seen and identification was complete. 



The date of the finding of the second, I do not exactly 

 remember, but was about ten days later or about June twenty- 

 ninth. The nest contained well fledged young, in fact they left 

 the nest while I was looking at them. The nest was similar in 

 every respect to the first, perhaps a trifle stouter and placed in 

 a position almost identical with that in which the first one was 

 placed. The old birds approached me very closely, feeding 

 their young within a couple of feet of my hand." His brother, 

 C. L. Brownell, who was with him that season, writes me: 

 "Personally I am convinced that Wilsonia piisilla is not so 

 uncommon as is generally supposed, but its eggs remain rare 

 because of the difficulty in locating its nest, which it conceals 

 to perfection. While at or near Bangor, I disturbed at least 

 half a dozen pair which undoubtedly had nests near me, but 

 in no case could I locate them." I find no other records of 

 nests being found in the State except one found by the writer 

 on June 1, 1902. The locality was the edge of the Hermon 

 Bog, and was discovered but a few moments after finding the 

 nest of D. p hypoclirysea as described by Prof. Knight in his 

 article on this species in the Journal Vol. VI Apr. No. p. 39. 



The description of the nesting site of pus ilia is identical with 

 his description of hypochrysea, except that it was at the edge 

 the bog, some one hundred yards from the nest of hypochrysea. 

 Soon after we located the nest of the Yellow Palm, as we 

 were about to leave the bog, I flushed a small bird from a 

 nest, well concealed under a thick mass of grasses and weeds 



