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Certhia familiaris amoricana. 
1880. 
(June 2) 
Maine (Lake Umbagog). 
Set L-5. — Fresh. Ash stub over water; seven 
feet; found May 24 when only a fev/ shreds of material 
had been placed vrithin the bark-scale. 
3. 
Visiting 
the 
the nest found May 21 and prying open the 
bark, the young, four in number, started simultaneously 
and floY/’ out. One falling in the Lake v/as seized and 
instantly swallowed by a huge bull-frog; the others 
when held against the trunk of a tree instantly crept 
upv/ards using the short tail precisely in the manner of 
the old bird. 
Sot M-6. Incubated seven days, 
the bark-scale standing out from the 
the nest visible several rods av/ay; 
she flev/ from the nest Just before I 
Hiediately disappeared in the vroods; 
ing near. 
Fir—ton feet; 
tree at a v^ido angle 
female sitting; 
reached it and im- 
tho male v/as sing- 
7, 
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1881 
Set N-0. Fir on edge of v/ator; height eight feet; 
Incubation four days. Nest found May S7 v/hen it contain¬ 
ed one egg. 
Set 0—4. — Fir--five feet—water’s edge outside 
woods— fresh; > -nest found Hay 27 v/hen only a few shreds 
of the foundation had been laid. 
May 14. " Watched one building in a strip of bark on maple, 
and during the day found two other new, but unfinished 
nests. 
25. Sot P-6. — Frosh^—fir—height tv/elve feet, 
stariding in shallow v/ater on the lake shore. 
Tree 
27. 
27. 
Set Q-6. —Fresh—fir—height five foot. 
Set R-5. — Ash stub standing in the v/ater; height 
five feet; incubatedn a fev/ days; female sitting. 
V/hon I pried off the bark she climbed up above the neSt 
and clung there, evidently much-frightened. 
On the 14th we saw a Creeper carrying building ma¬ 
terials behind a scale of bark. We approached rather too 
near when she dropped her load and eyed us suspiciously. 
To-day wo found that nothing had been dons to this nest 
since our former visit; v/e examined it carefully, how¬ 
ever, and its position merits description: The tree v/as 
a largo rod maple standing in the v/ator and perfectly 
dead. The bark had simply cracJced in a long narrow slit 
and held fast both top and bottom. The space within was 
very narrov/ I have never soon a Creeper’s nest before ona 
a maple; nor have I seen one in a bark-scale v/hich was 
not separated from the trunk below. 
