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in this section of the country was that collected by Mr. C. J. 
Maynard, June 12, 1869, and admirably described by him on 
page 100 of the “Naturalist’s Guide.” This nest was placed on 
a slightly elevated tuft of moss, near a swampy thicket, within 
a short distance of a travelled road, and contained four eggs, 
and also one of the Cow Bird (Molothrus pecoris), which were 
within a few days of hatching. Since this nest was found there 
have been no others taken, to my knowledge, until the past year 
when three were discovered ; one each by my friends, E. B. 
Towne, Jr., and W. W. Eager, who have kindly allowed me to 
use their notes, and the third by my brother and myself. 
We were out collecting on the afternoon of June 8th, 1875, 
and while passing through a strip of swampy land on the out- 
skirts of a small wood, flushed a bird from under a plant known 
as “ Skunk Cabbage,” ( Symplocarpus faetidus.) 
Upon searching we found the nest concealed by the large 
leaves of the plant. It was raised about two inches above the 
wet ground by dead oak and maple leaves which were quite 
damp. The owner soon came back, and hopping excitedly from 
branch to branch of an alder thicket a few yards away, almost 
continually uttered a sharp chirp of alarm, betokening her strong 
dislike to the intruders ; but, strange to say, her mate did not 
make his appearance, although we could hear him distinctly 
zee-zee-zeeing, a few rods away. As it was fast growing dark, 
and feeling satisfled that she had laid her set, we shot her. 
The nest, which closely resembles that of the Maryland Yel- 
low-throat ( Geotlilypis triclias ), is composed outwardly of dry 
oak and maple leaves, interspersed with long stripes of the out- 
er bark of the grape vine ; and is lined with flne flbrous shreds 
of the same of a reddish tint, interwoven with one or two very 
small pieces of dry grass. The measurements are as follows : 
height, 2.75 inches ; width, 4.25 ; diameter inside, 2.30 ; depth 
inside, 1.60. 
The eggs are three in number, two pure white ; the third 
sparsely spotted on the larger end, and measured respectively, 
.69x.53, .68x.51, and .65x.49. One of them was out of the nest, 
and had three small holes close to each other on the upper side, 
through which a little of the albumen had leaked out and dried. 
I cannot with certainty account for this, as I feel quite positive 
that no other person had ever molested the nest, but think that 
a squirrel, or other rodent, had eaten one of the eggs, pulled 
