Wilsonla canadensis . 
1071. 
Y ?T ay 30- 
Juno 10. 
1074. 
3. 
13. 
20 . 
ifr/s. 
Juno 10, 
1079, 
May 34. 
Juno IB* 
Maine (Lake Umbagog) 
donorally distributed throughout the woods hut no 
whore very common; the females wore evidently laying at 
the time of our departure. 
Shot a young bird Just from the nest. 
One of the few birds singing in the woods. 
Shot an adult male in fall plumage which is ? much 
more beautiful than that of spring. He was in Full song 
^ . 
' A seat exquisitely concealed in a hole in the side 
of a stoop mossy bank. The hole extending in about 
six inches and the entire nest over-arched by intensely 
groon moss. Female sitting on four fresh eggs, she 
flow \ ran the nost when wo wore within about three yards 
of her, Locality a moss-carpeted glade shaded by one 
two large' trees and in the heart of the woods 
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A single male singing. 
Set B-4. Incubated about eight days. Most in a 
ca/i fey excavated in a vertical wall of green moss growing 
on the face of the ledge and shaded by heavy timber. 
The female came about chirping sharply. The shell of 
|| the eggs were very hard. vy*. t> 
Sot e “f 3 * On the point of hatching. J^Tcst in green 
moss adhereing to the vertical face of a root about four 
feet in diameter. I noticed the entrance hole, and 
looking in spied the female sitting. I stood -ithin two 
soot of hor for sometime; then she glided out, running 
over the ground with trailing -.rings and spread tail. 
j’ or a while she was silent, returning occasionally to 
peor^ gf; mo anxiously, then retiring among the leaves. 
Finally she began to chirp sharply. The male did not 
appear. 
1 B 80 . 
May 19. 
1801. 
May 31. 
Two males 
Saw one. 
The first, 
