Hydemeles ludoviciana. 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
1866. 
June 19. 
Nest vrith three fresh eggs. 
1867. 
May 31, 
Nest found with one egg. Fresh. 
1868. 
May 9,: 
Shot one. 
1869. 
May 16, 
A male singing. 
1870. 
May 13. 
A male. 
June 1., 
Nest four fresh eggs; birch sapling; ten feet. 
Male si.ttin^. 
1871. 
May 15. 
A male (STtortov/n ), 
* 16. 
Several males. 
1872, 
May 13. 
At least a doan along the base of Hverly Hill. 
They wore evidently migrating. 
1874 
May 13, 
Two males in full song. The woods are still as 
bare and forlorn as in winter. 
June 
Hearing a male singing I followed him a short dis¬ 
tance when ho flew into a half finished nest and settled 
dovm comfortably as if sitting on eggs. 
1875. 
May 10. 
Seen at Newton, 
June 21. 
Watched a female to a half finished nest. 
July 2. 
Visited the nest found building Juno 21 it contain¬ 
ed one egg which appeared to bo the complement for it 
had been incubated several days. 
Aug, 30, 
,• eight, all in brown plu mage, 
in the Fresh Pond swamp, * 
Sept. 9, 
Saw several. 
1876. 
May 11, 
General arrival (Belmont), 
“ 23, 
cord three during a tramp from Lincoln to Con- 
