Contopus borealis. 
177 
Maine (Lake Umbagog). 
1879. 
(June 23- 
16. 
19. 
1880. 
May 20.' 
June 11. 
,) Set B-1. Incubated about three days. The female 
was sitting and probably v/ould have laid no more e'ggs. 
Horizontal brancji of tall spruce on edge of woods—haight 
; fifty foot. I found this nest by v/-atehing the birds 
and say/’ thr 3 female go to it. The Dialo drove away every 
bird tnat came near the tree, among others a Hairy Wood¬ 
pecker which was fiercely assailed and ignominously put 
oO i light. The female v/as sitting to-day; she loft the 
nest wnon my guide began to climb the tree and with her 
mate darted dovm about his head, both birds snapping 
uheir bills and keeping up a great outcry. 
Several. 
A nev/ly finished nest in a spruce. The old birds dove 
dow;. about my climber’s head although the nest was empty, 
14. ^ 
^ Set G-4. Incubated four da s; horizontal branch 
Oi tall, slender spruce, noar extremity and about four 
foot from the trunk; height forty feet; female sitting 
As wo landed noar the spot she left the nest and joined 
her mate, botn birds uttering their anxious pill-pill- 
Upon our withdrawing a little distance she re¬ 
turned to the nest, again leaving it v/hen my guide began 
to climb the tree. Heithor of these birds came very 
noar while he was taking 
:ne 
1881. 
Way 14. 
_ Set D-3. Incubated throe days; noaf extremity of 
lorizontal branch of black spruce, eight feet from trunk- 
height twenty-five foot; female sitting; she flew off 
v/nen wo rapped on the tree and alighted on a dead branch 
noar oat in per(gct silence while v;o took the nest and 
eggs. The male did liot appear and I hav- seldom hoard 
him near this nest which v/as immodiatolv behind'^ ^-he 
Lake House. 
Set E-3. Fresh—extremity of short horizontal 
branch o. exceedingly tall black spruce, three feet from 
trunk; height forty-five feet; female sitting; when 
nf ascended the tree both she and the male swooped 
about his head “snapping their tooth". 
of m!""! noar extremity of horizontal branch 
Of black spruce, midway between ground and too of tr-^e 
nicn was a tall Slender one; height twenty f^ot- fe! 
mlo oitting; wo rapped sharply on the tree without 
0 ting nor nor did she leave the rest till my guide had 
nearly reached it. She phon fl-w to no n w • 
v/ho-'i wt-n ^ h * ii-w to an adjoining tree 
vrion the male, she kept calling 8ill-ein-oin 
but neithcw bird plunged a-out the clirnfc:T-s1;:;rd^’ 
srrapped their bills. 
Sav/ five, the first, 
