Yellow-breasted Chat. June 29, 1883, 
noticed a pair of Yellow-breasted Chats 
feeding young about lialf-lledged, first I 
ever saw breeding in this locality ; next day 
found another Chat’s nest with four young. 
o.ao. 
Arlington Heights. Yellow-breasted Chat. 
Arlington Heights. A specimen was taken June 
6th. — [ W. P. Hadley. 
Q,SfQ t 15. July. 1890. p, ✓/ / 
772. Yellow-breasted Chat. By F. H. Carpenter. Ibid., p. 96.— Breed- 
ing at Rehoboth, Mass. — 1 - A. A. 
o, & o. /oi.vm 
Yellow-breasted Chat. W. H. Wright 
took a male Yellow-breastecLChat atFram- 
ingham, Mass, May 18, 1883. ' ‘ • ‘ ' u?? . " 9 p 6tf 
Birds of Bristol County, Mass. 
F.W. Andros. 
Icteria virens (Linn.), Yellow-breasted Chat. 
Summer resident, very rare. Breeds. 
O.&o. XII. Sept. 1887* P.T41 
Notes on Birds of Winchendon, Mass. 1 
William Brewster. 
Icteria virens.— Mr. Bailey shot a male of this species May 30, 1888. 
Auk, V, Oct., 1888. p.392 
# 
’ : As Known to Pass Breeding Season 
-*t. Winchendon, Mass. Wm. Brewster 
70. Icteria virens.* 
Tttrt c om-m *** * 
Auk, V, Oct,. 1888. p. 389 
The Yellow-breasted Chat Breeding in Malden, Mass. — On June 2, 
1887, while exploring a large tract of wooded swamp in the eastern part of 
Malden, I was so fortunate as to discover a nest of the Yellow-breasted 
Chat ( Icteria Virens'). The bird was sitting when I approached the nest 
which was almost completely concealed by the thickly-clustering leaves 
of a dense, stunted witch-hazel bush growing in a partially cleared tract 
of swamp, She sat very close, and made little complaint when she flew. 
The nest held five eggs, the full complement, which I found to have been 
incubated a few days. I visited the nest several times, nearly always finding 
both parent birds near it. A brood of three was successfully reared, and 
left the nest on June 19. The nest is now in my possession. It was 
built three and a half feet from the ground, and is very thick-walled and 
deep. On June 29 and 30 I saw a Chat that might have been the male of 
this pair. On both occasions he was in a dense thicket fully a mile from 
the nest.— II. P. Johnson, Everett, Mass. Auk, V. J&n. 1888. p. ttb. 
Bd* Oha, n«ar Sheffield. Berkshire 
Qy, Man. Juno 17- ^6, ’88. W. Faxon 
67. Icteria virens. Yellow-breasted Chat. — One pair, Sheffield. 
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