Seiurus noveboraoensis . 
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Lahe Umbagog, Maine. 
Photographing bird and 
nests. 
18S6. / 
/^In the afternoon Watrous and I rowed over to Leonard's 
May 50. pond. We first landed on the island where W. found two Water 
Thrushes' nests with, respectively, 4 eggs slightly incubated 
and 5 eggs far advanced. I had ray hands full photographing 
these nests. One was in a large earth bank under and behind 
a curtain of earth and fine roots. Of this I made two photo¬ 
graphs. The female was very nervous and fussy, chirping and 
calling up her mate the first thing. She would not go on the 
nest when the camera was near it but Kept running rapidly a- 
bout around the bank and the camera examining the latter as 
well as the bulb of ray rubber tube which lay several yards 
off with evident distrust. When started from the nest she 
would regularly run six or eight yards crouching close to the 
ground and moving with a slow gliding motion spreading her 
tail and half spreading and quivering her wings, sometimes 
turning bach and gliding past me or just under the nest, making 
nor 
no sound A tilting while behaving thus but presently flying up 
to some branch or root to tilt and chirp with her mate. Both 
birds were very large and very yellow beneath. This was the 
nest with 5 eggs. The banh was of clean, fresh sandy loam 
with no vegetation. The nest was very bulhy and outwardly 
composed wholly of dead leaves. 
The other nest and its owner were wholly different. The 
