Hylocichla g.pallasii 
1896, 
May is. 
Lake Umbagog. 
Lakeside. 
Nest. 
In a thin growth of young poplars and birches with a few 
young spruces and balsams intermixed, Watrous found a Hermit 
Thrush's nest containing four fresh eggs. The nest was in the 
side of a mound covered with last year's brakes most of them brok¬ 
en down, some pertially overarching the nest which, however, was 
so exposed that W. found it without flushing the bird which, in¬ 
deed, he did not see at all. 
May 14. Lake Umbagog. 
L ak es ide . 
P hotographing nest . 
I took . . . one (photograph) of the nest of the Hermit 
Thrush which w. found yesterday. The bird was sitting to-day. I 
put up my camera within three feet of the nest and she came back 
to her eggs three or four times, but she flew off the nest each time 
I returned before I could spring the shutter. After the first 
failure I built a booth of pine boughs about the camera. This did 
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not deter her from resuming her place but it also did not secure 
me sufficiently from her keen eyes. 
1897, Lake Umbagog. 
June II. great Island . 
The nest (found by Watrous yesterday with four young) 
was placed on the top of a little knoll, deeply sunk in the mossy 
ground and surrounded by a rather scanty growth of yew which was 
not over 12 inches in height. It is unusual to find a Hermit's 
nest in heavy old growth forest far removed from any opening or 
clearing. . .... 
