Nests of Tyrannus Car. [Tyrannus carolinensis] Vireo Phil [Vireo philadelphicus] (3)
MAINE, (L. Umbagog) [Umbagog Lake, Maine] [Nests of] Setophaga D. tigrina [Dendroica tigrina]
1876. [Nests of] D. coronata [Dendroica coronata]
Wenesday [Wednesday] [Nests of] Z. albicollis [Zonotrichia albicollis] Cy. cyanea [Cyanospiza cyanea]
June 21 [June 21, 1876] Warm with showers at frequent intervals
all through the day. Off with Stone in the
boat in the forenoon going as far up as
Browns clearing. Took a nest of Seth.
ruticilla [Setophaga ruticilla] (with 4 fresh eggs) which i discovered
half finished some time back. One of these
eggs slipped through my fingers as I
was taking it from the nest and fell
to the ground, a distance of at least
15 ft. [feet] striking without the slightest
injury on the leafy mould [delete]beneath[/delete].
Took also a marked nest of D. maculosa [Dendroica maculosa]
near Stone's with 4 fresh eggs and three
nests of Tyrannus Car. [Tyrannus carolinensis] two with 3 eggs
each & one with 2 eggs. One set with 3
was incubated several days, and the
other had contained the same number
since the 18th though the eggs seemed
nearly fresh. Found a nest of T. Swainsoni [Turdus swainsoni]
with 3 eggs incubated some 5 or 6 days &
a deserted nest of D. coronata [Dendroica coronata] with 2 eggs wet
& cold that contained embryos of small size
dead & partially decomposed. This nest was
built like the others in a small isolated
spruce in a clearing near the woods. The 
[male] was singing near. Two of the Tyrannus'
nests were built in the tops of hollow stubs
the jagged edges of the shell of the stub just
rising above the rim of the nest & in places
disclosing its exterior. The birds were very bold
diving down at me like H. bicolor [Hirundo bicolor] & snapping 
their bills. Heard a [male] D. tigrina [Dendroica tigrina] singing and
also a new vireo song which I attributed with
some doubt to V. Phil [Vireo philadelphicus]. The song was most like
the red eye's [red-eyed vireo] but entirely distinct, an emphatic
whit-tu-whit coming in regularly among the more
[margin]similar warbling notes. I saw the bird and was sure that it was smaller than V. olivaceous [Vireo olivaceus] but did not succeed in shooting it. In the P.M. went went over on the Stone path & took a nest of D. maculosa [Dendroica maculosa] with only 2 eggs upon which the [female] has been sitting 5 or 6 days. Heard a [male] Cyanospiza cyanea singing in Godwins clearing. Purdie [Henry A. Purdie] brought in a nest of Z. albicollis [Zonotrichia albicolls] with 4 fresh eggs. It was placed among rank grass near a brook. Cedar birds are now extremely abundant and building everywhere.[/margin]