Nests of T. Swainsoni [Turdus swainsoni]
MAINE, (L. Umbagog) [Umbagog Lake, Maine] [Nests of] D. maculosa [Dendroica maculosa]
1876 [Nests of S. ruticilla] [Setophaga ruticilla]
Friday
June 16 [June 16, 1876] Clear and very hot. Ther. [Thermometer] 82 [degrees]. Off after
breakfast with Stone taking the Tyler path.
First visited the nest of T. Swainsoni [Turdus swainsoni]
found Monday and found the [female] sitting
on 3 eggs. This nest was built in a
fir about 8 ft. up. Next found a nest
of D. coronata [Dendroica coronata] just completed, a most
elegant affair, lined very handsomely
with feathers. The [male] was singing about
100 yds. off. Next found a nest of
D. maculosa [Dendroica maculosa] built in a spruce sapling
about 4 ft. up. The [female] was sitting on 4 fresh eggs and
allowed me to nearly toutch [touch] her with
my hand before flying off, when as is
the almost invariable custom of all
the birds here, she disappeared & did 
not show herself again. On the way
back I struck through a cedar swamp
and happened to spy a nest of T.
Swainsoni [Turdus swainsoni] in a white cedar some 10 ft.
up. The [female] was sitting and I obtained
a sufficiently good view of her to see
the yellow ring around the eye and
be sure of my identification. I
mention this because the set of 4
eggs is unlike any we have previously
taken, the eggs being nearly if not quite as
large as robin's and very heavy and
handsomely blotched and spotted.
Stone also took an olive backs [olive-backed thrush] with 3 eggs
which had been in. [incubated] several days. In the
P.M. visited a nest of T. Swainsoni [Turdus swainsoni] found
Thursday near the Stone path and took
it with a set of 4 eggs. This nest was
built on the prong of a fallen spruce
some 5 ft. up. Bailey took nest of S. ruticilla [Setophaga ruticilla] 3 fresh eggs
[margin]Purdie [Henry A. Purdie] left this morning for Magalloway.[/margin]