Anorthura hiemails . 
1879. 
'ay 28. 
J urio 1G. 
1880. 
Hay 16 
18 
28. 
29 
Maine (Lake Umbagog) 
'Ever sine . my arrival a male has sung regularly in 
thfi '.roods behind tho houso. To-day f found the female 
at work upon her nost under the trunk of a fallen tree 
covered with brush wood. She came and went at frequent 
intervals with hor bill full of shreds of green moss. 
This sho collected only a few yards from the spot to 
which sho carried it, half-running, halflying over tho 
ground, invariably koeping concealed under tho side of 
a fallen tr ■ -top. When she emerged from beneath tho 
roots whore tho nest was building she invariably paused 
a moment and quivered her wings tremulously, at tho same 
time rocking her body to and fro 
: ) • rol. mg ..mm mm . e rl;/ ’ ■ m. hug. 
In full sor.g. 
The woods ringing with their exquisite music.. 
Sot A-G. — Three eggs incubated about 
remaining throo addled; nest sot into 
five days, tho 
the face of earthy 
root-bank near its base, about fifteen inches above tho 
ground; tho female started off dropping to the ground 
and half-running half-flying, glided around tho corner 
of tho bank and disappeared. She neither returned 
nor made any noise while I was .-rapping up the eggs. I 
suspected that there was a nest in this bank when I 
passed it May 24; at that time tho bird also came out 
but she glided caway so silently and mysteriously, that 
after hunting tho bank carefully I declared that I must 
have soon a shadow. Indeed, to-day I found the entrance 
to tho nost only after tho most careful s larch. S. tw. •*£**■- 
Two other nests found to-day, one just completed, 
tho birds at work on tho other. 
Throe nests in root banks; two apparently new, but 
empty; tho third evidently old within two feet of one 
of tho now ones and in tho same bank where there was also 
an old Water Thrush’s nost. 
