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187G. 
(June 13) I 
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Dendroeca maculosa. 
Maine (Lake Ucibagog ). 
Nest y/ith young at least a vreok old and one egg 
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containing a dead embryo. 
Pour sets of four eggs each, one set incubated about 
four days, another on the point of hatching the other 
tv/’o perfectly fresh. All four nests in the top of spruc> 
sapling about eight feet high. 
“ 14.: 
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Sot Q-4. — Incubation five days; nest in fir 
shrub; height tv/o feet. Female sat closely. I stooped 
over the nest till my face vfas vathin a foot of her be¬ 
fore she flov/ off. 
“ 16. 
Sot T-5. Incubated about six days; nest in top of 
fir shrub; height about tv/o feet. 
" 17. 
Set U-4. Nearly fresh. Nest on horizontal branch 
of tall spruce at its extremity, about eight feet above 
the ground, beautifully conooalod under a flake-like 
layer of tv/igs, and almost pensile in character. This 
nest v/as found Juno 13 v;hen it contained tv/o eggs. 
1880. 
May 28. 
Nest. Tv/o fresh eggs. 
“ 31. 
Set V-3. Fresh—small fir; height seven feet; fe¬ 
male sitting. 
June 4. 
Set W-4, Incubated about four days. Nest at end 
of drooping spruce limb, prettily hidden among the layers 
of needles; height seven feet. A nest of this species 
v/as taken on the same branch and in exactly the same 
spot last year. 
“ 10. 
Set Y-4. Par advanced- upright spray of“ground 
heaiock” (Yew); height five feet; female started eight 
feet av/ay and disappeared in silence. 
Set Z-4. Well, advanced—upright spray of Yev/; 
height five feet; female very shy; she flew from the 
nest before I v/as v/ithin ton yards of it. 
" 14. 
^ Upright spray of Yew; height five feet; eggs de- 
i sorted and addled. 
1881. 
May 12. 
A single male. 
1874.■ 
Aug. 3. 
Shot a young bird just from the nest-. 
1876. 
June 17. 
^ Noo L. in u no h-eart of the woods near ilio extremity 
■ of a horizontal sprucr branch at least tv/on y-fivo feet 
above the ground; female sitting on four frasii eggs. 
1879. 
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;Lip i/y but apparently -nev/’ly Tinishod nests. 
Tnroe 
