1871. 
Zonotriehia albicolis. 
Maine (Lake Umbagog). 
Common. We often hoard it singing as late as 10 
Three nests, all in open pastures under or noar 
'I fallen logs. One found June G v/as placed directly un¬ 
der a broad slab with a space of only a few inches above 
' the sitting bird; this nest contained five eggs on the 
i point of hatching. 
May 30- j; 
June 10.: 
Junei,4-9“ 
1872. i; 
Juno 6. 'I 
i: 
1873. I: 
j 
July 21. 
Aug. 23. 
1874. ; 
Aug. 1. 
Nest with four neai’ly fresh eggs. 
Still singing morning and evening. 
I still occasionally hear them, but they have nearly 
stopped singing. 
July 2b.. The young when just out of the nost have precisely 
■ the same note as the adult bird. 
Still singing freely. 
10. This is the only specimen singing now and it is 
fast lapsing into silence. 
1876. 
May 28. I now hear them frequently at all hours of the 
|i night. 
June 11. i Female sitting on an empty nest i.]ndor a fallen 
spruce top. 
four fresh eggs, the female sitting, and 
. noo starting till nearly trodden on. The nest v/as sunk 
in the ground and almost eomplotoly concealed by with- 
;■ ered last year’s ferns that overarciied it. The locali- 
j ty yms a slope covered with scattering firs’ 
Pureie found a nost placed about four feet above 
j! the ground in a fallen fir. 
Purdio found a nost with four fresh eggs, on the 
ground among rank grasses on the edge of a brook. 
1879. I 
June 12. , Set of four perfectly fresh eggs. Nest in top of 
mound by side of Poasleo’s Brook ; beautifully ovorar- 
cliod and eoncoalod by ferns, v/ild raspberries, and other 
trailing vines. Female sitting. I stopped v;-ithin loss 
than tv/’o ioet of the nest before she started, v/hen she 
flUGtered up into a bush './ithin a fow yards and there 
I remained, uttering occasionally a sharp chirp which soon 
|, wrought up the male. This fomalo was one of tlio finest 
plumagod ones that T have seen; in fact I could diatin- 
j| guisn no Qiiforonee between her and the male 
