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Geothlypis Philadelphia
Nest of Dend. virens [Dendroica virens]
1875. Middlesex Co., Mass. [Middlesex County, Massachusetts.]
June 8 [June 8, 1875] as a specimen she was nearly worthless. 
She was very tame and chirped at me
in exactly the same tone as an indigo
bird, and so anxiously that I more
than half expected she had a nest
somewhere in the vicinity; upon dissection
however I found the ovaries but slightly
enlarged, little more so in fact, than in
a fall bird. Heard several rails of both
species and shall make another effort
for their nests. After dinner had my
horse harnessed and drove up to
Waverley where I found my combination
knife which I lost a week ago. Also
visited a nest in a yellow pine which
I climbed to on the 3rd inst. [June 3, 1875] (p.[page] 139) and
found empty. To my great delight I
found a [female] D. virens [Dendroica virens] sitting upon it
and again ascending discovered that
it contained a beautiful set of 4 fresh
eggs and one of M. pecoris [Molothrus pecoris]. The [female] flew
off before I got half way up the tree
and beyond an occasional chirp and
a shy peep at me now and then from
a neighboring red cedar, she evinced but 
little anxiety. The nest was saddled upon
a horizontal limb about 6 ft. [feet] from the
main trunk, 20 from the ground and
perhaps 3/4 way up as the tree grew.
Continuing on I visited five nests
of D. Penn. [Dendroica pensylvanica] discovered at different times
and most of them in the town of Lex'g'n [Lexington].
Found two robbed, one deserted with
one egg, a fourth with four and the
fifth with five eggs. Also found