Junco hyemails 
Maine (Lake Umbagog). 
1 fKX) • 
’ay 33* 
* 24, 
Set o-3. Inca;-:-1 v about Pom* days—n®8t ground 
in hilly as turo, 
Sot EV4* Incubated about four days—on ground, in 
hilly pas '.urn, f-u. <>. s.\* 0 *i<. 
V' 
Thro o' Sots , four og%s ’each; one fresh, tho other 
Wo incubated severs1 days, Tho nosts all in root banks 
plotted almo&t exactly like those of Si urus naovins . 
Tho fomalosh-Toro all sitting; two of tho»i skulked array 
■v/hon I was je'ight or ton yards away from thoir mats and 
thon came hjpppir. about on tho ground Raking a show of 
{ ' ay 24) y,w feeding unconcernedly, Tho Female of tho third 
nest, tho oggs of which wore dons id. or ably further ad¬ 
vanced than tho Others, sat more closely, permitting 
mo to approach within • yard, Sho looked very pretty 
in her snug rotreat with her neat drab plumage and 
fleshy-pink bill; when she started she began tumbling 
about on the ground as if .-.••• • ;d, 
2,S, 
Sot J—f5* Incubated about four days, side of 
!?, +Crt0h\) 
.)'une 15, II Set L-4. Fresh—root-bank against face of small 
rock that was hung among roots. In.-ht five foot; fe¬ 
male sat closely * After blowing the ground—tint 
becomes pale groan, ^ . 
19, 
1* lj3, 
Oct,;,-.;,.. 
Set o-3, Incubated about two days—side of mound 
in thicket uhder largo yellow birch. Female sitting; 
sno skulked quietly away but afterwards came up to have 
a I’O . I'tj’* 4t°1: 
/XOoorion liurilsg our stay. Thoir numbars poroptibly 
increased as the month wore on and by the 31st they wore 
exceedingly abundant. In a drive to Andover taken that 
day wo estimated th t wo saw at least five hundred, 
ihoy wore partial to tho edges of tio woods and roadsides 
but wore to bo found every where, oven in tho depths 
of the forest ,/y 
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