Dendroioa maculosa 
Maine (Lalce Umbagog). 
1079. 
Juno 4. 
Nost • ;ith four fresh eggs, tv/ol vo foot above the 
ground in a fir shrub. Female sat so closely ih t X 
nearly touched her. 
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Three empty but spparontly finished -sir . 
* 10. 
s rhroo »t! of iggi >ur, two, and five respectively; 
tho sot of ’ivo in.''.;ibstoc about ton days, the others 
■ »sh; tho . 11 i ill ovoi rooxi! the rc d- 
sido, tv/o its firs, one in a spruce; height fr m throe to 
fivo foot. Th' p rent of the sot of five sat so c lone¬ 
ly that I almost touched her with my hand; she slid 
quietly off tho nost and began chirping sharoly, hopping 
about within a few foot of mo. trailing hor wings and 
jotting hor widely spread tail nervously. She was in 
exceptionally high plumage and probably a very old bird 
which may account for the exceptional number of eggs in 
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(Juno 13) 
Most with youn; at least a wo ok old and one egg 
cox.it. iruing r. (load embryo. 
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Four ' o h of fu-ur ergs >nch, one sot incubated about 
four days, anOth >r on the point of batch i.rg the other 
two er.'heotl; 'rose . All four nost in t’-e top of sprued 
sap lire; about light foot hi; h. 
“ 14. 
fe Ii ci b Loi f : v ■ d tys; nost in fir 
shrub; height two foot. For sale sat, c'aely. I sto-'-ood 
ov -r the . :>s ; till p f co was within a ?oa : of hor be¬ 
fore she flow off. 
1G. 
out e-o. Incubated about six days; rest in top of 
“ 17. 
fir s:rub; height about two foot. . „ 
. Got U—■'*. Nearly frosh.^Nost on horissoi 
of tall eprico at its extremity, .about >£gh foot' ibovo 
the gw: and , b uvuhi fully concealed under a flake-like 
y >r of ’igs, an< ost ponsij > Li *act r. is 
\ fill : lornci Ji inn 13 it c , ta U , ui 3 n, '‘■y{s 9 yy 
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