Nests of Tringoides mac. [Tringoides macularius] Pipilo [Pipilo erythrophthalmus], Coccyzus ery. [Coccyzus erythrophthalmus]
D. Pennsylvanica [Dendroica pensylvanica]
1875 Middlesex Co., Mass. [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
June 3 [June 3, 1875] Clear but rather cool with fresh S.E. [southeast] wind.
Rose at 6 and got off as soon as possible.
Charles drove me up to the Wellington lane
where I took the three nests found & left on May
31 - and sent them home in the buggy. They
contained Trin. macularius [Tringoides macularius], 4 eggs; Pipilo, 3;
Coccyzus erythrop. [Coccyzus erythrophthalmus] 5. The latter birds must
have laid 4 eggs between Monday at 11 A.M. 
and Thursday at 8 A.M. This I have had happen
with the other species which deposited 2 eggs
between 4.30 A.M. and 7 the previous evening,
or in 9 1/2 hours. The Tringoides sat very
close and simulated lameness more energetically
than before. From here struck across country
towards Belmont reaching the spring near Prospect
St. by noon and taking lunch there. In the
morning found three nests of D. Pennsyl. [Dendroica pensylvanica], two
with 3 eggs each, the other with 1 egg & 1 of the cowbird's.
The [female] D. Penn. [Dendroica pensylvanica] is a very close sitter; one may
almost toutch [touch] her on the nest before she
will start. The [male] usually sings within less
than 100 yds of his mate & nest. Found and
took two nests of Coccyzus erythrop. [Coccyzus erythropthalmus] the first
with 5 eggs; the 2 ond [second] with three. In all three
sets taken today, one egg was incubated [?]
while the others were quite fresh. A fresh
cuckoo's egg blows like a rotten egg, white
yolk & all come out mixed together in
one squirt; incubated a few days the white
(so called) becomes quite hard and is of a grass
green color. One of these nests was so small
and flat that the eggs seemed on the
point of rolling out or rather off. The
birds [?] sat quite closely and uttered the
usual worrotaroo after being frightened off