Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni 
1375, June 18. 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
Host with four oggs. 
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Harrington-found a last year’s nest containing two 
oggs faded and stained almost beyond recognition and 
thoir contents dried up, but perfectly whole. 
Host in spruce eight foot above ground; female sit 
ting on four oggs. 
Two nests with four oggs, one with throe. 
A nest with throe oggs incubated ate-eut five or six 
days. 
A fomalo sitting on a nest which contained only one 
egg. On the 13th she was sitting on the empty nest; 
on both occasions she sat very closely. 
Purdio took three sots of oggs to-day. 
In full song about the lake shores this evening. 
Throe sots; throe, three, and two oggs respective¬ 
ly; all fresh, or nearly so Ono nost near the ex¬ 
tremity of a drooping fir branch about eight foot from 
tho ground; tho other two in small firs against the 
main stern; tho height of ono ton foot, of tho other 
fifteen feet. Two of tho birds were sitting, and 
neither started until tho branch was forcibly shakon, 
when they glided down into tho tangle of fallen tree—tops 
bonoath and disappeared in silence. All three nests in 
the swampy woods bordering Cambridge River. 
Sot of four fresh oggs; nost in fir shrub noar 
roadside, against tho main stem; height five foot, 
Female sitting; she slid off when I was within about 
twenty foot. 
Sot of throe fresh oggs. Nest in young spruce 
about four foot above ground. 
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■ June 11. 
Sot -3. — Fresh. Nost in fir sapling noar the top. 
Height about fiftoon feet. Female absent but as I 
climbed the tree sho came about, making an unusual fuss. 
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Fresh. Nost in fir sapling. 
