Nests of D. coronata [Dendroica coronata] Geoth. Phil. [Geothlypis philadelphia]
MAINE, (L. Umbagog. [Umbagog Lake, Maine]) [Nests of] T. Swainsoni [Turdus swainsoni] Picoides Arc. [Picoides arcticus]
1876 [Nests of Turdus fuscescens] Chry. pinus [Chrysomitris pinus]
Sunday [Nests of] D. maculosa [Dendroica maculosa]
[Nests of] Zon. albicollis [Zonotrichia albicollis]
June 11 [June 11, 1876] Clear and excessively hot. Spent the forenoon
hunting the "savins" with Baily and
found a nest of D. cornata [Dendroica coronata] with four
perfectly fresh eggs. It was built
in an isolated spruce sapling in a
little glade & was about 10 ft. up. The
female was sitting and when I drove her
off her chirping brought up the [male] which
had been singing some 30 yds off.
I also took the nest found yesterday
with three eggs also fresh. They had
evidently been deserted as they wet &
cold. This nest was in a precisely similar
locality but was a little lower in tree, some
7 ft up & 5 ft from the top of tree. I also
found a nest of T. Swainsoni [Turdus swainsoni] with 2 eggs.
It was in a fir sapling near the road &
about 6 ft up. The [female] was not seen. I also
found a nest of T. fuscescens [Turdus fuscescens] in the thickest
of the savins, built in a spruce some 4 ft up.
The [female] was sitting on 2 eggs & late in the P.M.
Bailey visited it & found a third egg laid
B. started a Zon. albicollis [Zonotrichia albicollis] from an empty
nest under a fallen spruce top. After dinner
we all went out again taking the Stone road.
I visited my T. Swainsoni [Turdus swainsoni] nest found on the
6th & found the female sitting on 4 fresh eggs.
She allowed me to nearly touch her before leaving 
the nest which she did in silence. It was built in a
fir sapling some 7 ft up. I also found
three newly completed nests of D. maculosoa Dendroica maculosa]
& Purdie, Bailey & Harrington few more.
One found by B. [Bailey] contained one egg. All were
built very low in fir shrub & not over 2 ft up.
This morning a [male] G. Philadelphia [Geothlypis philadelphia] was sing
behind the barn & I saw a Picoides Arcticus circling in the
[margin]same place. This evening went up behind Abbotts to hear the woodcock sing but he only flew up a little way and whistled faintly with his wings. Chry. pinus [Chrysomitris pinus] has become abundant in the last few days. They come about the house in little companies but have not heard them sing yet.[/margin]