MAINE, (L. Umbagog. [Umbagog Lake, Maine]) Nest of Turdus pallasi  Nest of P. villosus [Picus villosus]
1876. [Nest of] Chordeiles popetue
Wenesday [Wednesday] [Nest of] Spizella socialis
June 7 [June 7, 1876] Clear and cool with bracing N.W. [northwest] wind.
Off after breakfast striking up on the hill.
Found birds very scarce and shy but shot
12 the best D. castanea [Dendroica castanea] 1, D. Black. [Dendroica blackburniae] 1, Emp.
flaviventris [Empidonax flaviventris] 1, Carpod. purpureus [Carpodacus purpureus] 2 etc.
Found a nest of Turdus Pallasi with
four eggs in the same field where I shot
one in 1872. The nest was placed on a
mound among some spruce shrubs
which were not over 2 ft. high. The locality
was a high, open pasture grown up
to fir saplings. The nest was about 20 yds
from the wood edge and the [male] was singing
about 50 yds [yards] off. The eggs were in.
The [female] flew off when I was within 15 ft.
Saw nothing of interest, not a single [?]
warbler in all the tramp. Bailey found
nest of Spizella socialis with 4 fresh eggs.
In P.M. went up to the lake with Bailey to
beyond Stone's but found nothing except a
swallow's with 4 eggs. I took my swallow from
last Friday [June 3, 1876]. It contained 6 eggs. I cut open
my nest of Picus villosus and found 
young about as large as sparrows. The hole
was 1 14/16 in diam. [inches in diameter] at opening. 13 in [inches] deep
& 4 ins [inches] interior diameter. Returning to the [?]
I went up into Abbott's field for night hawks
eggs. Going to the place where Stone & I saw
a [male] booming & afterwards a [female] rise from the
ground I started the [female] at once from her two
eggs. The locality was among forest trees on the edge
of the woods. I next went to the place [?]
I had marked another [male] plunging & here
I started another [female] but hunted a long time [?]
the eggs in vain. Leaving her [?]
I came back and working the spot [?]
[margin][?] finding where she rose I found the eggs. The locality was similar to the first but three eggs reposed on green moss instead of bare ground. Both birds acted nearly alike. They rose at least 15 yds. and fluttered off simulating lameness but not toutching the ground as they flew. After going [?] about 30 yds they lit and uttered a queer clicking noise that I [?] heard before [?] [?] when wounded and bobbing their heads up & down as noted last week. In the evening went out on the lake.The [female] Chordeiles of the second nest I shot and found that they warm the eggs with the breast that part being bare while the abdomen was thickly feathered[/margin]