Dondrooca coronata 
Main© (Laic© Umbagog}. 
1071 
Juno „ 
O 
1874. 
July 31 
Aug. 7 
1876 . 
Juno 11, 
Throo nosts round yosterday and to-day wore. built 
in young firs - about broast high they voro all large, 
deeply hollowed and lined chiefly /it- 1 , feathers, they 
contained four 13 ■ d o < od in incubation. 
y Tho young chirp in more gutteral tones than the 
other young Varblors, and continue calling for a longer 
time vithout Cbe s>s> «*.\i o -a 
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tiot / young; male rithout yellow o;, the rump. 
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16. 
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6 ^ a second nest among the firs bo hand the mill. It 
s built bout tei 'oet boro the ground in a small iso¬ 
lated spruce in the middle of an opening. The female 
■/as • sitting and The; started off, chi r pod sharply, bring¬ 
ing up tho male who had boon singing some thirty yards 
away. The nest contained four perfectly fresh eggs. 
x also took the most found yost v aytac more eggs 
had bion laid and the nest was evidently deserted. Its 
i ili r t of Mt but it was low¬ 
er, about so von above theyground and five bo low tft> top 
of tho troo,^^ 
Two nosts, the f n\ v--,los of each sitting on four 
fresh ougs. Tho first nest was in a s >rueo sapling about 
seven foot from tho ground and five from the top of tho 
tr io. The female slid off . mu ibo S f. fc ouch her 
wit/a my harid. The mlo was singing about one hundred 
yards away. Tho tr iso] >d one standing on 
tno edge of an open field. Tho second most was about 
fi . eon foot 1 -■ vo the ground in a ;■ me ■ growing in 
S0CO1 - s* wo - — 
A rocentls finis >d but empty nest exquisitely lined 
W 1 tn ioathors. 7alo bird singing . bout hundrod yards 
away. 
A nest in a small isolai , tur© eon— 
tainod t\/o eggs, with embryos of small . iso. The most 
was wot, and oVidor tly deserted, the 'bo os dead and 
partially decomposed. 
