174 
Contopus borealis, 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
1867. 
June 
Pound two nests, one with three eggs the younf 
being far advanced, the other containing four eggs which 
had been sat on only a few days. They wer> placed on 
the horizontal branches of rather small pitch pine trees 
pone about fifteen feet above the earth, the other twenty 
The old birds darted at me, passing within a few feet of 
my head and snapping their bills furiously. After the 
removal of their nests I think they nested again in the 
Vicinity for the males sang there as usual. 
1868. 
May 23, 
A male at the Waverly oaks, Belmont. He was verr 
shy -aftd, perching on the tops of some dead sycamores and 
calling at frequent intervals this heard above 
the rushing of the brook sounded very sweet and plain¬ 
tive. 
June I 64 
1869, 
Pound two nests In Watertown, one containing two 
IT three fresh eggs, ’fhe forcer 
aL ’’®tght Of only about eight feet, 
hr n K extremity of an apple tree 
no^r ’ surface of a small 
pond on the banks of which the tree grew. The females 
Of both nests left thee long before ! goi near IZ lit 
ing on dead branches uttered a co mplaining pill-oil i-oin 
‘he „-£j,'descrifefi7 
birdr R^rnr T’' '■"•iving crow Black-' 
thl ? f’ • Vicinity. I saw one of 
halfTmile ^ 
half a mile and even the mated birds would occasionally 
fem^er fiercely for several minutes. The^ 
females were rather shy, but the male of one nest darted 
down close past my head, clicking his bill angrily. 
May 17. 
July 18. 
1874, 
One singing. 
Still singing. 
May 18 
May 
June 
26. 
9. 
14. 
One in the old haunt at the Waverlv oaks r^ 
abo'urLiJ “ ““fh* =^“™orc and, at LLrvals 0 ?"® 
PirlilSlbo^?'" or Sic- 
Two males shot inb Waverly, 
One singing in Mt.Auburn. 
A pair has frequented the base of Wavftriv u-s n 4 ^ 
several weeks past. waverly Hill for 
1876, 
