Near Wareham, Mass.
1900.
June 12-14.
(No 18)
  54. Ardea virescens. - One heard at the Reservoir on 
June 12. Mr. Bangs has found several nests in
wooded marsh islands near the head of Buzzard's Bay.
  [Nycticorax naevius.- The proprietor of a trout pond
near Wareham told me that he killed over fifty
"Quawks" near his pond last year but none have
been seen there this year].
  [Philohela minor.- Mr. Bangs showed me a piece
of swampy maple woods near Wareham where he
has often flushed Woodcock in July & where he thinks 
it possible a pair or two may still breed.]
  55. Actitis macularia.- A pair with young on a
sandy flat strewn with Unio shells & over the
bottom of a large mill pond.
  56. Aix sponsa.- On June we tracked three
birds (which I think were all ducks in plain
summer plumage) from a long narrow pond formed
by damming a brook to supply water to a cranberry
bog below. There were numbers of large dead stubs
in this pond. Some ten or twelve years ago a
Wood Duck nested in a curious tower attached to
a mill near Wareham & in the very middle of
a collection of scattered houses. The nest was
robbed by a Portuguese negro. J. Russell Reed saw
the bird enter it & has some notes regarding it.
I took a photograph of the tower on June 12.
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