Trip on the lake.
MAINE, (L. Umbagog) [Umbagog Lake, Maine] Unique situation of nests of E. Traillii et
1876. D. maculosa [Dendroica maculosa]. Nest of Buteo Penn. [Buteo pennsylvanicus]
Saturday My. crinitus [Myiarchus crinitus] D. striata [Dendroica striata]
June 17 [June 17, 1876] Clear and warm with S.W. [southwest] wind.
Started out on the lake with Harrington after
breakfast taking dinner with us. Paddled
up to B. point where we landed and
hunted the island but found nothing
Then sailed across to Browns clearing
where we spent most of the forenoon. 
Here I found a nest of T. Swainsoni [Turdus swainsoni] 
about 8 ft. up in a fir, the [female] sitting
on 4 eggs. I also found a newly completed
nest about 10 ft. up in a spruce which
from its general appearance I took to
be that of E. Traillii [Empidonax traillii] though the situation
was certainly unique. From here we
sailed over to the cove behind "300 acre
island where we ran the boat in under
some overhanging trees and took
dinner and a comfortable post prandial 
smoke. Then went ashore and hunted
the woods long and carefully. I finally
spied a nest on the horozontal [horizontal] branch
of a spruce in the deep woods and
at least 25 ft. up. Throwing up a 
stick the bird came off and i thought
myself booked for a prize but to my
infinite disgust the parent turned out
to be a [female] D. maculosa [Dendroica maculosa]. Harrington
kindly secured the nest for me with
4 fresh eggs. The nest was quite typical
but the situation certainly unique though
we afterwards climbed to an old nest
in a similar situation that was undeniably
the domicile of this species. I also found
a good looking hawks nest in the fork of a
birch some 50 ft. up but as no birds were about
we did not climb to it. It belonged probably
[margin]to Buteo Penn. [Buteo pennsylvanicus]. I heard a [male] D. striata [Dendroica striata] singing near the house this morning but it was probably a late straggler: a week ago they were common everywhere. Sailed all the way home, with a splendid breeze. Found a nest of Tyrannus Car. [Tyrannus carolinensis] in a stub with 2 eggs. Heard several My. crinitus [Myiarchus crinitus] I heard them everywhere & they are fully as common as Contopus borealis are now.[/margin]