Dend.ro ioa oastanea . 
Lake tJmbagog, Maine 
1396. ^ In t 
Nest and eggs 
In the afternoon visited the Warbler's nest in the bal- 
June 7. saia on Mason's knoll - the nest that we left with 4 eggs yester¬ 
day. It had 5 eggs to-day and a female Bay-breast was sitting 
on them. Shaking and pounding the tree did not seem to dis¬ 
turb her but every 15 or 20 minutes she would leave the nest 
of her own accord and ramble about among the neighboring tree 
tops, feeding, returning to her eggs after an absence of 4 or 
5 minutes. Once while on an excursion of this kind she was 
joined by the male who brought her an insect of some kind in 
his bill and gave it to her. She accepted it with apparent 
indifference but at once ate it. The male is the bird who 
sings in the hemlock 30 yards away. 
After photographing this nest we secured it with the 
eggs. The pair of Bay-breasts flitted about some distance off 
while Watrous was despoiling them but as soon as he came down 
from the tree the female began searching for her nest examin¬ 
ing all the neighboring branches carefully and hovering in the 
air at the place where the branch with the nest had been. 
