1874. 
189 
Setophago rutieilla. 
Maine (Lake Umbagog). 
Aug. 5.( 
(f rj 
1876. 
May 31. 
June 21. 
Shot an adult male that v/as beginning to moult its 
v/arn plumage. 
Shot an adult male chanuin!? to fall plumage (speci¬ 
men in collection). 
Exceedingly abundant. All the na les seem to bo 
adult birds; of hundreds which I have seen singing not 
one has been immature. 
A nest with four fresh eggs. One slipped through 
my fingers and fell to the ground at a distance of fully 
fifteen foot, 'where I found it lying entirely uninjured 
on the leafy mould. 
1879. 
June 10.if 
14. 
21 
1881. 
May 12. 
Nest with four eggs slightly incubated in maple sap¬ 
ling behind I,ake House. Height: eight feet. Female 
sitting. Building ?'ay 28, with tv/o eggs Juno 7 when t’-P 
nest v/as half filled with snov/’ and the bird absent. 
Set G~4. Fresh, 
height ten feet. 
Nest in fork of maple sapling. 
Set H-4. Incubated about five days—fork of maple 
sapling—height five feet—female flitting about s pread- 
ing nor wings a- d spreading her tail and making a great 
fuss —thieket of bush maples on hillside. 
Numbers. 
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