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Turdus swqinsoni. 
Maine (Lake Umbagog), 
Tv/o nosts, one v/ith orn, the other with three eggs. 
The first vras built precisely like the nest of a Wood 
Thrush, on a prong of a dead birch some four feet above 
the ground. The position of the second v/as unique—in 
a hollo',7 scooped in the earth that adhered to the roots 
of a fallen tree, and perfectly concealed by a portion 
of the bank which projected above it. The situation 
of this nest v/as in every v/ay similar to that usually 
chosen by the Water Thrush. The bird v/as sitting and 
did not start till I placed my hand on the root directly 
over her head. Tv/o other nests of this Thrush were ta¬ 
ken this morning, each v/ith four eggs. In the after¬ 
noon I found tv/o More in Grafton, one in a very slender 
spruce sapling, at least tv/enty foot above the ground. 
The bird sat closely and contrary to the rule returned 
while I v/as taking the eggs and repeatedly alighted v/ith- 
in four feet of my head reiterating her liquid poonk . 
This nest contained four eggs. 
Found four nests; one v/ith four eggs, one v/ith 
throe, one with tv/o, and one v/ith one. One of those 
nests v/as built about tv/o foot above the ground in the 
top of a fallen spruce; another in an arbor-vitae about 
fifteen feet above the ground; a third about fifteen 
feet above the ground on some tv/igs that branched out 
from the trunk of a huge birch. 
Four nests; with three, three, four, and four eggs 
respectively. One built in an arbor-vitae about ton 
feet above the ground contained a sot of four eggs, which 
are unlike any that I have over seen being nearly if 
not quite, as large as Robin’s eggs and very heavily 
blotched and spotted. 
Another nest v/as built on a horizontal prong of a 
fallen spruce, about five feet above the ground. 
Nest v/ith four eggs. 
Harrington found a last year’s nest containing tv/o 
Qggs faded and stained almost beyond recognition and 
their contents dried up, but perfectly v/hole. 
Nest in spruce eight feet above ground; female sit¬ 
ting on four eggs. 
Tv/o nests v/ith four eggs, one v/ith three. 
A nest with three'eggs incubated about five or six 
days. 
A female sitting on a nest v/hich contained only one 
egg. On the 18th she v/as sitting on the empty nest; 
on both occasions she sat very closely, 
Purdie took three sots of eggs to-day. 
