Corthia familiaris amorioaaa, 
1070. 
June 9, 
1079. 
May 31. 
Juno 5, 
14 
14. 
Ma ino (La3co Umbagog 
Sovoral pairs among tho stubs at tho Outlet 
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•4-6XHost with set of six eggs behind a seal® of loos® 
bark on the trunk of a dead fir. Height ten foot; 
fonalo sitting; eggs incubated four ■ r five days. Af¬ 
ter I had removed tho nest-bark and all-tho fonalo re¬ 
turned, examined the spot whore it had boon, in evident 
bovaldermont, then alighted at tho foot of tho tree and 
ascended it to the' top, soarching it closely. This she 
repeated at least a dozen times in succession. The 
song of this specios is not powerful but exceedingly 
sv/oot and wild. It consists of four notes distinctly 
but rather quickly given and most resembles the song of 
Parus Carolinensis 
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Sot of six eggs Incubated about six days; nest un¬ 
der a s rip of bark on dead fir; height ton feet. 
[ found it by following the .female -who flew to and from 
tho tree a number of times, entering thonest and then 
again leaving it as if building. She uttered her shrill 
crop) at intervals while I was taking 
did not appear. 
,he 3ggs, 
Tho male 
Most with one fresh o? 
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A nest cor.Gaining young which tho mother was food- 
log. She made froquont trips to o.:■ d from the tree going 
only a few yards away and always securing a billful of 
food for her brood on one of tho neighboring tree—trunks. 
Tho y. ung mro abs >lnt ly sil'-nthfaeis^ fed. The 
mother watched mo also in silence and without apparent 
alarm while X, inspected the nest,.. This nest was a 
stub that stood just outside that woods on the shore of 
tho Lake, and surrounded by water. It was not over 
four foot above tho si.trface of tho water. Some of tho 
materials of which it was composed hung down an inch or 
tv/o below tho bottom of tho berk-scale. I also found 
that tv/o nests, both old ones, behind the same scale 
of i.te ; h G . This piece of bark, was 
a huge shoot adhoreing to tho trunk of a dead fir that 
stood in tho eater on the extremity of a point. One 
nest 'was probably a last year’s one, it still coat, f ed 
an unhatehod egg, bleached, and cracked. The other 
nest was evidently of older origin and probably built 
two years ago. I regard both those nests as the for¬ 
mer homes of tho same pair of birds that built tho first 
nest found by me this season; the site of the latter 
■• r ’ifty yards army from this spot, ff 
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