Near Wareham, Mass
1900.
June 12-14. 
(No 14)
  45. Colaptes auratus  - Common everywhere. found two
 nests which the birds were seen to enter in stubs in
 the Reservoir.
  46. Ceryle alcyon .- One seen at the Reservoir when
 Mr. Bangs found a nest with young a few years since.
  47. Coccyzus erythropthalmus .- Common.
   [Coccyzus americanus .- Mr. Bangs has found this
 species on several occasions in the breeding season
 but he regards it as much less common than the
 Black-bird.]
  [Megascops asio .- A brood of young was met with by
 Mr. Bangs a few years ago as he was fishing a trout
stream near Wareham.
  [Bubo virgianianus .- Mr. Bangs says that this Owl
 still comes in the Wareham region but that its
 numbers are steadily diminishing there.]
  [Nyctale acadica .- Visited the old white pine swamp
 where Mr. Bangs took the set of 7 eggs of this Owl several
 years ago. The stub, a large, dry trunk of a white pine,
 is still standing - or rather leaning out over the clear, rapid
 trout stream which flows past its base. The swamp is
 buried in the heart of extensive woods remote from civilisation
 and with its fine old trees draped in Usnea is a very
 wild & beautiful looking piece of forest. I saw a fresh
 Otter track near the nesting tree to which the Owls have never returned.]
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