Nest of Myiod. Canadensis [Myiodioctes canadensis] - Nest of Seiurus Novebor. [Seiurus noveboracensis]
MAINE, (L. Umbagog) [Umbagog Lake, Maine] [Nest of] D. maculosa [Dendroica maculosa]
1876. [Nest of] Ty. Carolin. [Tyrannus carolinensis]. Swallow & merganser.
Sunday
June 18 [June 18, 1876] Clear and warm with heavy shower in P.M.
Started off in the boat with Bailey after
breakfast and sailed with the wind blowing
almost a gale over to Sargent's clearing where
we landed and spent several hours hunting
for nests but without finding anything of any
value. I started a very large cock among
spruce savins, and found a cedar bird's nest
just commenced. Empidonax Traillii was abundant 
here in thickets of water willow. Returning to the 
boat pretty thoroughly disgusted we set sail 
for home but when opposite Brown's I spied
a king bird's nest in a stub & I ran in to examine.
Found it contained three eggs, and as we had taken 
the trouble to land we concluded to hunt a little
more when scarcely had we started into the woods 
than Bailey ran across a nest of My. Can. [Myiodioctes canadensis]
It was placed most beautifully in a hole in a steep mossy
bank, the hole extending in about six inches
and the entire nest & contents overhung by a green
roof of moss. The [female] was sitting on 4 fresh eggs &
flew off when B. [Bailey] was within about 3 yds. of her.
The locality was a little mossy glade in the midst
of heavy woods, and overshadowed by one or two
large trees. Landing again nearer home we ate
lunch and I took three nests found June 15th. [June 15, 1876]. 2 of
T. Swainsoni [Turdus swainsoni], one 3 & the other 4 eggs, & D. maculosa [Dendroica maculosa] 4. 
Here I found a last years nest of Seiurus Nov. [Seiurus noveboracensis] built
exactly like the one of Myiodioctes just described. It 
had one deserted egg which I think I can save.
Hunting about in the woods a while I found a nest of 
D. maculosa in a spruce sapling about 7 ft  up. The [female] was
sitting on 4 fresh eggs. Bailey found an olive back's [olive backed thrush] with 4. 
While here we started a [female] Lopho. cacullatus [Lophodytes cucullatus] from among
the stubs and I was much surprised to see a [male] Hir.
bicolor [Hirundo bicolor] start off after her and rapidly outtake her, harassing
her flight as he would have a hawks.
[margin]though it is but fair to state that she (the duck) was flying rather more slowly than usual. Birds sing now only early in the morning & again at sunset. The winter wren is not heard so often as a week ago and Certhias sing also less frequently.[/margin]