1880 
Slums naovius. 
Maine (Lake Umtaagog). 
(May 31)! get H-3. Prosh. Root bank on shelf protected by 
the overhanging earth above; female absent; male sing¬ 
ing near by. 
Set P-6. Prosh—root bank, eighteen inches above 
base; female sitting; she dropped to the ground and 
ran quietly off, nor did she return. This nest found 
May' 24 v:hen it had tvro eggs. 
Set G-4. Incubation about tv/o days; nest in root- 
bank near the top; entrance so narrowed by the overarch¬ 
ing earth that the bird had difficulty in squozing out; 
she dropped to the ground when I approached and stole off 
along the dround like a mouse, afterv/ards returning and 
cliirping faintly; position of nest five feet above the 
base of bank, and directly over a Winter’ V^ren^s nest 
newly finished byt empty. ’ 
sets, five each, all incubated five or six days. 
June 2. Sot 1-4. Incubated four days; root bank near lake 
shore; female sat closely. 
^^"5- Root bank just outside vfood edge; female 
sat closeljr. 
L-4. Presh. Root-bank within fifty yards of 
preceding nest. This nest is probably a second one by 
the same birds whose nest was broken up by Crov/-s or Jays 
last -week (see May 28)-. The eggs correspond so exact¬ 
ly with those of Set B-4 taken within fifty yards of the 
same spot in 1879, that r think they must have been laid 
; by the same bird. 
Sot M-4. Incubated four days. Bank of Swift 
Gambridgo \rhare the water had v/orn away the earth leavi 
the bank a little overarchedg; nost throe feet above 
the 'Water; found May 22, when the female was at work 
lining the cavity v/hich she had excavated. 
Sot N-4. Incubated five days. Root bank at the 
very bottom; female sitting; she came off only when my 
fae guides face v/as within a few inches of her. 
Set 0-4, Incubated seven days—root bank—overarch¬ 
ed and nicely concealed by a projecting flake of earth. 
The female sat closely and after being flushed returned 
and repeatedly tried to enter the nost while we were 
standing within a few feet of it. The male also appear¬ 
ed, tilting and chirping incessantly. 
Set P-3. presh—root bank, v/ell concealed under 
overhanging shelf; female sat closely and made a great 
fuss. This set is the second laying by the parents of 
K-5. The tv/o nests v/ere in adjoining root-banks not 
twGnty feet apart. 
