142 
1866. I 
Juno 16. i 
Dondroeca virons. 
Middlosox County, Mass. 
Nest vnlth tvro fresh eggs. 
1867, i' 
June 24.!' Round a nest \Yith a young bird able to fly although 
the male bird vras in full song. 
1868. |! 
“ay 5.1: 
1869, 
Ap r. 30. 
June 12. 
No'-. 21. 
1870. 
May 1 y-, 
Oet. 13. 
1871. 
Apr. 30. 
Several males. 
A male singing. 
Mesu containing four eggs far advanced tovmrds hate 
ing; placed in a barberry bush in an open rocky pasture 
some distance from any trees and about three feet '"rom 
the ground. The female sat very clcsa. 
One in yellov/ pines. 
Numbers. 
One, the last 
General arrival (Medford). 
1875. 
May 
6 . 
June 8. 
A male singing. 
A nest in Waverly v^ith four fresh eggs and one of 
the Cow Bird’s. The female started off before T got 
half-v/’ay up the tree, and beyond an occasional chirp, or 
a sly peep aj me xiovr a.nd then from a neighboring cedar, 
sho'v/ed but little anxiety. The nest vms saddled on 
the horizontal limb of a yellow pine about sixf feet 
from the inain trunk, tvYonty feet above the ground, and 
perhaps ton feet from the top of the tree. This'nest r/a 
found June 3 v/hen it v.'as empty, 
15.;! A nest in a yello-,/ pine (height about twenty feet) 
v/as empty and had the lining torn out. 
