Cambridge, Mass.
1909
June 30 [June 30, 1909]
  A pair of Killdeer Plovers have been haunting
Pont Pond Swamp for the past month or so. I do not
know who first discovered them there. I first heard of
their presence about a week ago through a printed circular
issued by Maynard to his bird classes. Next came a letter
from Mrs. Bridge to say that she had seen them. Then
T. S. Bradler wrote me that a Belmont farmer had told
him of their presence. This evening Samuel Henshaw
telephoned that Mr Nelson, our Museum taxidermist,
wished me to know that that he had found their nest.
It had four eggs at first. Two of the eggs were hatched on
June 29, the other two to-day. Nelson has made
a number of successful photographs of the nest, eggs
& young birds. One of the young died soon after leaving
the shell. This is all I know now.
Nesting of Killdeer Plovers in Pont Pond Swamp.