193 
Trochilus eolubris. i 
Middlesex County, Mass. 1 
1860. 
June 16, 
Nest vath two eggs nearly hatched. | 
1867. 
Juno 22. 
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Pound a nest with two fresh eggs; it was attached |» 
to the horizontal branch of a decayed pitch pine at the i 
height of about twenty-feet. Upon ny ascending the tree 
the female darted out of sight and did not return while i| 
I remained in the vicinity. 1 
1868. I 
May 15. 
Several. One fiercely attacked a Chipping Sparrow :i 
erecting the feathers of its throat and darting about fl 
the other’s head. The cherry trees are in full bloo-i 1 
and the Hummingbirds were all in or about them, m 
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• 28. 
Pound a nest newly finished. 1 
June 1, 
Pound a nest containing two fresh eggs, built on I 
the low horizontal branch of a Hemlock. % 
“ 6. 
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Pound a nest containing two fresh egg^ built on I 
the lov/ branch of a hemlock tree, 
July 10, 
One 1 
Aug. 8, 
A young bird. 1 
18C© 
May 13, 
A male, 1 
1870, 
May 14. 
A male, l| 
June 3, 
Nest on low apple-tree branch with two nearly fresg 1 
®ggs, || 
- 12, 
Nest, two fresh eggs, J 
Sept,19, 
One, the last, v ;i 
1871. 
May 18, 
Two, They are late this year for the cherry bios- 1 
soms have all fallen, 1 
Sept.17. 
One, the last, 'i 
1874. 
S^pt.29, 
X5neopoisod in front of an althea in full bloom. i 
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May 14. 
Male, i 
• 21. 
Very scarce this season have seen only two so far. li 
June 7, 
Saw only one or two during the migration and none 1 
