1880. 
Philohela minor. 
Maino 'Lake Umbagog ) . 
(May 23)jj 
June 4. 
One singing this o/ei.ing by the roadside above 
Peasleels. His song as I once described it is most 
like the notes of a ".Yater-V/'histIo and is certainly very 
rich and sweet. In the case of this performer it v/as 
also well sustained. I was sufficiently near him to 
hear the choking pt-ul v/’hich-precedes each utterence of 
the harsh pa ’ a’ a’a^: 
bow-string. 
the latter is like the tv/ang of a 
Exceedingly abundant hero th^is season; v/e started 
four old birds on one spot on Poasleo’s Brook this morn¬ 
ing. Mr.Godv/in reports seeing a nest v;-ith four eggs 
at the Middle Dam yesterda-y, A river driver happened 
to see the sitting bird and stooping, lifted her off the 
eggs and brought her to camp. She vras liberated short¬ 
ly aftorvrards and returned i," mediately to the nest. 
The next day aii ox stepped in in it and broke all the 
Qggs. 
Two moulting; shot among brakes by the Lake shore. 
the other 
latter bird 
Found fwo behind More’s, one in alders 
in scattered birdies 
on the hill-side.' 
The 
alighted on the smooth turf within ton yards of riie^, run¬ 
ning a fev/- steps and then squatting in the foot-print 
of an ox. 
One shot in a cornfield on Upton Hill. 
One among birdies and. pofilars on Abbott’s hill. 
May 
My setter found ai.id pointed a fvemale as she sat on 
the nest. I nearly touched her back before she flev/. 
She rose hea.vily without v/histling, and dropped again 
within tv/onty feet. We had previously started a male 
about fifty yards away; he flev/ 
nest and alighted within fi 
■i et, 
ion 
directly toirards the 
feet of it. When the 
female was flushed ho also rose with a hea^/y flutter and 
dropping to the ground again simulated lameness. The 
loce.lity was a oliicket of mixed yello ' spruces birches 
and ivilloiYs v/ith openings at frequent intervals, .arfavom 
ite haunt of these birds in September, v/hon they li-> con¬ 
cealed there among the tall ferns. The nest was on the 
top of a little mound partially protected from the vna- 
tnor, and from observation, by the overhanging branch of 
a small spruce. The four eggs vHiich it contained lay 
in a deep saucer-shaped hollow lined v/ith a few dry’ 
leaves; they looked fresh but I did not disturb thc^r 
Heard one singing a number of times thi; 
the roadside near Peaslee’s. 
evening by 
